Lalu Prasad Yadav, the patriarch of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, has described the public spat between his children—intensified after the party’s drubbing in the recent Bihar Assembly elections—as an “internal family matter.”

Lalu’s comments came at a meeting of RJD legislators that unanimously selected his younger son Tejashwi Yadav , as the leader of the legislative party.

At the meeting, Lalu, the former Chief Minister of Bihar, seemed to suggest that all would be well soon. He asked party leaders to focus on the party.

“The would be resolved within the family,” Lalu said, adding, “I am here to handle it”, according to a report in Hindustan Times

The RJD ruled Bihar between 1990 and 2005, and shared power with Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) between 2015 and 2017 and 2022 a

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