How the staunchly anti-Cong Sharad Yadav bent his politics for ticket for daughter

This is perhaps the lone case of Sharad wavering from his staunch ideological position. Otherwise, he remained a lethal critic of the Congress till the emergence of BJP leader Narendra Modi as PM in 2014. Though opposed to dynastic politics as a core socialist ideal, Yadav was no exception in promoting his children in politics.

Though Subhashini, who writes Subhashini Sharad Yadav in her Twitter profile, has not been very active in politics, his son Shantanu Bundela is seen cultivating the father’s pocket-borough Madhepura constituency. It is entirely up to the RJD leadership to decide if Bundela fits the bill from Madhepura in future, though.

A senior JD(U) leader said: “It was wrong of Sharad Yadav to allow his daughter to contest from the Congress. He should instead have chosen the RJD. This was perhaps the lone aberration in his otherwise illustrious political career.”