PATNA: RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s eldest daughter and Rajya Sabha member

has admitted before the party workers that there is some “manmutao” (discord) between her two brothers --Tej Pratap and Tejashwi Prasad Yadav.

“Some kind of discord remains in every family. When all five fingers in our hand are not equals and there is ‘manmutao’ (discord) between two brothers in my family, then the

(RJD) is very large family. The RJD has no dearth of votes,” Misa told party workers during a feast of ‘Litti-Chokha’ (a traditional Bihari food) at Maner, about 20km west from the state capital, on Sunday night.

Misa disclosed about the discord between her two brothers, accidentally, while trying to convince the party workers about presence of “some sorts of discord” in every family and every political parties. She told the RJD workers that it was common these days that two brothers in a family have bitter relationship.

Local media have, time and again, been reporting about the ongoing discord between two sons of Lalu Prasad, but both have been refuting the media reports accusing the rival BJP of spreading rumours about rift in Lalu family.

It is for the first time that Lalu’s eldest daughter have clearly spoken about discord between her two brothers. Lalu has seven daughters and two sons. Tej Pratap and Tejashwi are the younger among the siblings.

On several occasions in the past, elder among the two brothers—Tej Pratap – have expressed his annoyance, once through a post on his Facebook page, over the importance being given to the younger Tejashwi in the party matters.

In November 2015, when the RJD formed a coalition government in Bihar alongwith Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and the Congress; younger brother Tejashwi was made the deputy chief minister while the elder Tej Pratap was cabinet minister of health and environment and forest department.

“Tej Pratap had expressed his annoyance at that time also, but could not speak up his mind before his father Lalu Prasad,” insiders in the RJD say. Soon after his marriage with Aishwarya Rai, the granddaughter of former Bihar CM Daroga Prasad Rai in May this year, Tej Pratap had alleged that he was being sidelined in the RJD.