Weathered by old age and ill-health, RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday returned to his home turf of Bihar from where imprisonment in fodder scam cases had kept him away for three years.
The rift between the grand alliance partners Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress widened on Monday after the grand old party dared the former to form government in Bihar without its support.
Amid its stand-off with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) over the upcoming Bihar bypolls, the Congress said to be looking at Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav to contest on its symbol. Pappu Yadav, who was acquitted in the 32-year-old kidnapping case on Monday, was in the limelight for his attempts to help common people during the Covid pandemic and lockdown. Congress lawmaker Premchandra Mishra said that the ideology of the Congress and Pappu Yadav is similar and his relationship with the party is