A day after Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD suffered the second-worst drubbing in its history in the Bihar assembly polls, his daughter Rohini Acharya on Saturday announced that she was "quitting politics" and severing ties with the family.

In a post on X, Acharya said, "I am quitting politics and I am disowning my family...This is what Sanjay Yadav and Rameez had asked me to do...and I am taking all the blame."

Sanjay Yadav is the Rajya Sabha MP from RJD and one of the most trusted aides of Lalu Prasad's son Tejashwi Yadav, under whose leadership the party fought the Bihar elections.

Rameez is said to be Tejashwi's old friend who hails from a political family in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, reported PTI.

Acharya, who was in news for donating a kidney to her father a few years ago, was active

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