Rohini Acharya Calls for Safe Parental Homes for Girls After Exit From Lalu Famil

Patna: RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya has once again hinted at widening rifts within her family, a month after publicly distancing herself from them. In a fresh post from Singapore—where she resides and where she donated a kidney to her father in December 2022—Rohini urged the Bihar government to ensure that “every daughter feels safe in her parental home.”

While indirectly praising the chief minister for initiatives such as the ₹10,000 support scheme for women and bicycles for schoolgirls, she said these efforts were ultimately “inadequate” given Bihar’s deeply rooted patriarchal mindset. She called for broader social and political reforms to guarantee women’s safety and dignity.

 “Every daughter has the right to grow up with the assurance that her parental home is a safe place—one where she can return without fear, guilt, shame, or the need to justify herself,” she wrote on X. She added that ensuring this was not merely an administrative obligation but essential to preventing exploitation and harassment.

Rohini’s remarks come weeks after she resigned from the RJD and cut ties with her family following a reported verbal spat with her brother Tejashwi Prasad Yadav over the party’s electoral defeat. She had earlier alleged that she was accused of giving her father a “dirty kidney” after “extracting crores of rupees and a Lok Sabha ticket.”

Rohini, who contested unsuccessfully from Saran in the 2021 Lok Sabha elections, said that while the CM’s schemes for women were commendable, “giving girls ₹10,000 or distributing bicycles is not enough” without systemic reforms. She stressed that both the government and society must ensure strong, concrete measures to protect the rights and dignity of daughters, especially in the face of familial and social neglect.