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Tej Pratap Yadav, the eldest lad of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Chief Lalu Prasad, connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026) asked his younger member Tejashwi Yadav to merge RJD with his Janshakti Janata Dal (JJD).
Mr. Tej Pratap said this connected the juncture of Dahi-Chura feast, which helium has hosted astatine his authoritative residence successful Patna, inviting leaders cutting crossed enactment lines.
“JJD is the archetypal enactment of Lalu Prasad ji, and I volition impulse my younger member Tejashwi Yadav to merge RJD with my party,” Mr. Tej Pratap said.
The feast was attended by Mr. Lalu Prasad, who had erstwhile expelled Tej Pratap from the enactment and snapped adjacent household ties with him.
Jan Shakti Janata Dal President Tej Pratap Yadav with RJD Chief and his father, Lalu Prasad Yadav, astatine the Makar Sankranti celebrations, successful Patna | Photo Credit: ANI
After being expelled from the enactment successful May 2025, helium formed his ain governmental enactment named Janshakti Janata Dal (JJD). He, however, mislaid the predetermination from Mahua assembly constituency.
When Mr. Prasad had expelled him, helium had written a station connected ‘X’ saying, “The activities, nationalist behaviour and irresponsible behaviour of the eldest lad are not successful accordance with our household values and traditions. Therefore, I region him from the enactment and family. From present on, helium volition not person immoderate relation of immoderate benignant successful the enactment and family. He is expelled from the enactment for 6 years.”
Mr. Prasad’s code was changed erstwhile helium visited his residence to be the feast and said, “I americium not upset with Tej Pratap, helium has blessings and helium is doing bully enactment by organising the Dahi-Chura feast. Everyone should organise it.”
Tejashwi skips Dahi-Chura feast
However, his younger member Tejashwi Yadav and his parent Rabri Devi skipped it. A time earlier, Mr. Tej Pratap had gone to Ms. Devi’s residence to manus implicit the invitation paper to each 3 of them.
Asked astir his younger member not turning up for the feast, Mr. Tej Pratap said, “He gets up precocious successful the morning. I person fixed him an invitation.”
The different leaders who attended the feast included Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person and Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha, Janata Dal (United) person and curate Ashok Choudhary. Even Governor Arif Mohammad Khan attended the feast.
When reporters asked Mr Tej Pratap if helium had received immoderate offers from different governmental parties, helium said that helium had been receiving offers from astir each parties, but helium would determine astatine the close time. He besides expressed that if an accidental would beryllium fixed to him for immoderate post, helium would similar to judge it.
It is believed that aft losing the assembly election, helium is trying hard to go a subordinate of Bihar Legislative Council and it tin lone beryllium imaginable if ruling parties enactment him.
