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TopicLalu Prasad Yadav

Topic: Lalu Prasad Yadav

Being Tej Pratap — Lalu’s problem child, RJD rebel and Tejashwi’s family baggage

Tej Pratap, Lalu's oldest son, has repeatedly embarrassed the family but his new political outfit puts the RJD on the back foot ahead of Lok Sabha polls.

What Kanhaiya Kumar didn’t learn at JNU – for Lalu Prasad Yadav, family always comes first

Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan hold sway over their respective caste vote-base in Bihar. Now, they're looking to secure power with their next generation.

Lalu Prasad bends over backwards as Bihar alliance gets seat-sharing in place

RJD doles out the seats to allies, leaving it with less than half of Bihar's 40 Lok Sabha seats — a first for the party.

Samosas still have aloo but Bihar set for an election without Lalu

The RJD chief has a reputation of pepping up a poll campaign with his rustic humour and wit but with him in judicial custody, there is none to take up that mantle.

How Lalu Prasad is plotting to defeat Modi in Bihar from a jail in Jharkhand

Opposition leaders from Bihar & Jharkhand are queuing up at Birsa Munda Central Jail to meet prisoner no. 3351 as they look to firm up alliance against JD(U) & BJP.  

Lalu Prasad Yadav’s bail plea in 3 fodder scam cases turned down by Jharkhand High Court

The fodder scam is related to fraudulent withdrawal of government funds from the treasuries of various districts of undivided Bihar in the 1990s.

Lalu Yadav’s sons locked in family feud, leave RJD leaders fretting

Senior RJD leaders believe Lalu Yadav's sons Tejashwi and Tej Pratap are headed for a split, despite recent attempts to put up a united front.

It’s a problem of plenty as Bihar opposition alliance creaks under weight of numbers

The RJD wants to wrap up a poll agreement by the end of January but seat-sharing talks have begun exposing cracks in the alliance.   

How popular TV show Kaun Banega Crorepati became an agenda-setting exercise

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Why political parties are scared of Lalu Prasad Yadav

Terminally ill and in jail, Lalu Prasad Yadav still scares his opponents.

On Camera

Trump has called Delhi a big abuser of tariffs. India-US economic ties are about to change

How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.

How Adani halving power supply to Bangladesh could land the country in ‘dire straits’

Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.

India, Bangladesh Army chiefs discuss issues of ‘mutual interest’

Video call between two Army heads is their first interaction after political upheaval in Bangladesh forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.