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Lalu Prasad [1] (born 11 June 1948 [a]) is an Indian politician and president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). [2] [3] [4] He is a former Chief Minister of Bihar (1990-1997), a former Railway Minister of India (2004-2009), and a former Member of Parliament (MP) of the Lok Sabha [5] & Rajya Sabha.
The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav. [6] [7] The party's support base has traditionally been Other Backward Classes, Dalits and Muslims and it is considered a political champion of the lower castes. [8] In 2008, RJD received the status of recognized national level party following its performance in north-eastern states. [9]
This question was actually reported to have been put across to Muhammad to which he replied: "The (people of the old age) used to give names (to their persons) after the names of Apostles and pious persons who had gone before them". [11] Luke 3:23: Job: ʾAyyūb: Iyyov: Job 1:1: Quran 6:84: John the Baptist: Yaḥyā: Yohanan
A section of Muslims, which included the poor communities like Pasmanda were of the view that Lalu only strengthened upper Muslims like Shaikh, Sayyid and Pathans and they were in search of new options. [5] Yadav also alienated other dominant backward castes like Koeri and Kurmi since his projection as the saviour of Muslims. It is argued by ...
Lalu Prasad Yadav: 4 6 81 14 Bihar, Jharkhand: AAP: Aam Aadmi Party: Arvind Kejriwal: 3 10 161 – National Party: JMM: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha: Hemant Soren: 3 2 29 – Jharkhand: CPI(M) Communist Party of India (Marxist) Prakash Karat: 4 5 81 – National Party: IUML: Indian Union Muslim League: K. M. Kader Mohideen: 3 1 15 – Kerala and ...
[26] [27] [28] Initially there were definite political overtures when both Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar shared stage together in a public [29] event commemorating former chief minister Satyendra Narain Sinha's birth anniversary that witnessed veiled attacks on each other, the last time [30] they did it in public.
Lalu also relied upon 'symbolism', to prove himself the real leader of the Backwards in contrast to former Congress leaders who, while visiting any village, used to visit only the upper-caste inhabited hamlets. Yadav sidelined the upper castes and used to visit only those regions inhabited by the Backward Castes and the SCs. In response to ...
Nitish Kumar, a once-close aide of Lalu Yadav, split with his party after the "Yadavisation" of politics and the administration. According to Arun Sinha, Yadav initially wanted to project Kumar as the leader of the Kurmi community, but Kumar had much bigger ambitions. On many occasions, Kumar refrained from associating himself with a particular ...