In hattrick against Lalu Yadav kin, Rajiv Pratap Rudy trumps Lalu Prasad's daughter Rohini Acharya in Bihar's Saran

PATNA: Former Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy scored a hattrick for BJP in Saran by defeating Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya by over 13,000 votes, each time getting the better of a member of the RJD chief’s extended family.

Neither Rohini popularly as “kidney girl” for having donated one of her kidneys to her ailing father around two years ago — nor anyone in her circles had anticipated that her poll debut would turn out to be baptism by fire.

In 2014, Rudy had defeated Lalu’s wife and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi by 41,000 votes. Five years later, Rudy widened the gap, beating former state minister and RJD nominee Chandrika Rai by nearly 1.4 lakh votes. Rai is the father-in-law of Lalu’s eldest son and ex-minister Tej Pratap Yadav. For Rudy, his 2019 victory was sweeter also because Rai is the son of former Daroga Prasad Rai, a former CM who hailed from Saran.

Saran — known more by its district headquarters Chhapra — is considered the karmabhoomi of Lalu, who first won the then Chhapra LS seat in 1977, and went on to repeat the feats in 1989, 2004 and 2009. Chhapra was renamed Saran after delimitation in 2008.

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