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Last Updated:<\/span>November 14, 2025, 14:42 IST<\/time><\/p>\nIn the 2025 Assembly elections, the NDA crossed 200 seats, while the RJD-Congress Mahagathbandhan shrank to just 37.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Lalu Yadav and Rabri Devi have nine children. (Photo: PTI)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
For nearly four decades, the political landscape of Bihar has been shaped, sometimes shaken, by one family. The Yadavs have been an empire, sprawling, loud, unfiltered, and forever in the headlines. Now in 2025, as Bihar voted in record numbers and delivered a stinging verdict, the once-invincible family tree of Lalu Prasad Yadav stood rattled.<\/p>\n
Lalu Prasad Yadav, born in Gopalganj, rose from student politics to become one of India\u2019s most colourful, controversial, and charismatic leaders. In 1973, he married Rabri Devi, and together they built a home and a full-blown political dynasty. They have nine children: seven daughters, two sons, each carrying a slice of Lalu\u2019s legacy, some willingly, some reluctantly, and all under the public eye.<\/p>\n
Lalu Yadav\u2019s Family Tree<\/strong><\/p>\nMisa Bharti \u2013 The Eldest<\/strong><\/p>\nA doctor by training, Misa became the first daughter to step into the political arena. A Rajya Sabha member, she has frequently been in the spotlight, especially due to her involvement in the ongoing \u201cland-for-jobs” investigation. Central agencies like the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI have questioned her multiple times, and she has been named in the ED\u2019s first chargesheet related to the case.<\/p>\n
Ragini, Chanda, Rajlakshmi \u2013 The Political Marriages<\/strong><\/p>\nThese daughters married into power circles: a Samajwadi Party leader, a pilot, and a member of the extended Mulayam Singh Yadav family. Their lives remained mostly outside Bihar\u2019s stormy political theatre.<\/p>\n
Rohini Acharya<\/strong><\/p>\nRohini Acharya is often viewed as the emotional core of the Yadav family. Based in Singapore, she became known after donating a kidney to her ailing father in December 2022. On social media, she became the family\u2019s defender-in-chief, often locking horns with critics and even her own siblings.<\/p>\n
The Quiet Daughters<\/strong><\/p>\nBharti, Chhaya, and Hema, the lesser-known youngest daughter live away from the spotlight.<\/p>\n
Tej Pratap Yadav \u2013 The Rebel Prince<\/strong><\/p>\nOnce projected as Lalu\u2019s flamboyant heir, Tej Pratap\u2019s fall has been as dramatic as his rise. From ministerial posts to public meltdowns, from turbulent relationships to theatrical press moments, he drifted away from the family until 2025, when the break became final. He was expelled from the party for six years and disowned from the family. In the 2025 election, pushed to third place in Mahua, as per the Election Commission.<\/p>\n
Tejashwi Yadav \u2013 The Chosen Successor<\/strong><\/p>\nTejashwi is the younger son, the one Lalu called his \u201cpolitical aashirvaad”. He rose fast: Deputy Chief Minister, Opposition leader, and the face of the 2025 campaign. But even he could not escape the wave of anger in 2025. In Raghopur, the family\u2019s fortress, he was forced into a tight race he was expected to win effortlessly. Every round of counting told the same story: Bihar was no longer voting out of loyalty to the Yadav name.<\/p>\n
The 2025 Verdict<\/strong><\/p>\nLalu\u2019s political ascent peaked when he became Chief Minister of Bihar in 1990 as a Janata Dal leader. His second term was consumed by the infamous fodder scam, a corruption scandal that led him to resign and install his wife Rabri Devi as Chief Minister in his place. In 1997 he split from the Janata Dal to form the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Rabri Devi was CM for seven years until JD(U)\u2019s Nitish Kumar took office in 2005.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Bihar\u2019s anger towards the Yadavs was no longer quiet; it was visible in turnout numbers, in constituency murmurs, in the results flashing on counting day. In the Bihar Assembly elections, NDA crossed 200 seats, while the RJD-Congress Mahagathbandhan, managed to secure only 37.<\/p>\n
A comment on social media platform X read, \u201cImagine the damage Lalu Yadav has done to Bihar that even after 20 years of anti incumbency, people are coming out in huge numbers and vote for Nitish Kumar just to prevent Lalu & sons returns.”<\/p>\n
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