Bihar: Tejashwi Yadav offers to step aside, Lalu says he should lead RJD

PATNA: A visibly emotional Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who has been publicly accused by sister Rohini Acharya of misbehaviour and attacked by elder brother Tej Pratap, on Monday told RJD MLAs that they were free to elect someone else as their legislative party leader before his father and party patriarch Lalu Prasad quickly intervened to say he should continue to lead the party in the Bihar assembly, according to a legislator who was present at the meeting. Soon thereafter, the newly elected RJD MLAs chose Tejashwi as their legislative party leader. Apart from Lalu Prasad, his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and their eldest daughter and party MP Misa Bharti also attended the meeting. Tejashwi's aide Sanjay Yadav, who is at the centre of the turmoil in Lalu Prasad's family,