Patna: Claiming she was “cursed at” for donating a “dirty kidney” to her father, Lalu Prasad Yadav, in exchange for money and a party ticket, Rohini Acharya on Sunday said she has been “made an orphan” and advised married women against saving their fathers at personal cost.
In an emotional series of posts on X, the 47-year-old former RJD candidate, who unsuccessfully contested the Saran Lok Sabha seat in last year’s general elections, expressed her anguish: “May no household give birth to a girl with a fate like that of Rohini.”
Her posts came a day after she announced quitting the party and disowning her family, blaming her brother Tejashwi Yadav’s close aides—RJD MP Sanjay Yadav from Haryana and Rameez from a political family in Uttar Pradesh—for the party’s poor performance in the recent Bihar polls, where the RJD won only 25 of 243 assembly seats.
“Yesterday, I was cursed at and told that I am dirty, that I got my father to have my dirty kidney transplanted into him, took crores of rupees, bought a ticket, and then got that dirty kidney put in,” Acharya wrote.
She said she committed a “huge sin” by not consulting her husband or in-laws before donating a kidney to her father during a transplant in Singapore several years ago. “I did what I did to save my God—my father—and today, the kidney is being called ‘dirty’. May none of you ever make a mistake like mine,” she added.
Acharya further described verbal abuse and physical threats she faced: “A daughter, a sister, a married woman, a mother was humiliated, filthy abuses were hurled at her, a slipper was raised to hit her. I did not compromise on my self-respect… They left me orphaned.”
She also criticised Rameez, a close aide of Tejashwi, alleging he comes from a family with criminal cases, including his father-in-law Rizwan Zaheer, a former MP from Balrampur. No member of Lalu Prasad Yadav’s family has publicly responded to her outbursts.
Meanwhile, state minister Santosh Kumar Suman, whose father Jitan Ram Manjhi is a Union minister and former RJD associate, said he was aware tensions existed within the family. “All members of that family have vaulting ambitions and are busy pulling each other down… It is sad to see a daughter and sister being humiliated in her own family,” Suman said.
The HAM, which saw its best-ever performance in the recent polls, won five of six contested seats, electing Sikandra MLA Prafull Manjhi as its legislative party leader.
Acharya’s criticism also extended to Tejashwi Yadav, who she said reacted aggressively after being blamed for the party’s electoral defeat, a pattern she claimed was characteristic of the RJD leadership.
Earlier the single-largest party in Bihar, with a 70-plus tally in the outgoing assembly, RJD finished with a dismal 25 seats in the recent elections, contested by the INDIA bloc with Yadav as the chief ministerial candidate.
With PTI inputs