PATNA: In another embarrassment for RJD, party chief

’s elder son

on Friday launched another scathing attack on his estranged father-in-law Chandrika Rai and did not even spare his ‘Arjun’, younger brother Tejashwi.

Dubbing Rai as a ‘bahrupia’ and a ‘girgit’ (chameleon), he made a fervent appeal to the voters of Saran not to support and vote for him. Rai is the RJD’s candidate from Saran, which goes to polls on May 6.

“I appeal to the great public of Saran with folded hands not to cast vote in favour of the RJD candidate. This seat has been held by my father Lalu Prasad thrice in the past. Please do not give your valuable vote to this Bahrupiya, who is not even a member of my family. He is an outsider contesting on my family’s traditional seat. This man is trying to dupe the great people of Saran. This person frequently changes his colours like a girgit. I again make an appeal to you not to give your vote to this ‘nautankibaaz’ and fake candidate,” Tej said in a post on his official Facebook page on Friday.

His post came a day after Rai told TOI that his son-in-law would not campaign against him in Saran constituency. “Tej Pratap played a prank on media by announcing on April 1 that he will campaign against me,” Rai had said on Thursday.

He further embarrassed his father-in-law by rejecting his claim that his daughter’s marriage issue would be sorted out. “My divorce petition is in the court. I am firm on my decision to seek divorce from wife. There is no change in my stand on the issue of divorce,” Tej Pratap told reporters here on Friday.

Earlier, Tej had announced to contest against his father-in-law from Saran.

While campaigning in Jehanabad on Thursday, Tej Pratap had taunted his younger brother and the leader of opposition in

assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav saying, “Some people fell ill of tiredness after addressing a few election meetings.”

Without taking the name of Tejashwi, who is the RJD’s star campaigner in the absence of his father, the former health minister said, “Lalu ji used to address 10 to 12 election meetings in a day, but there are some people who fell ill of tiredness after addressing only four election meetings.” Tej Pratap was referring to the recent cancellation of Tejashwi’s scheduled election campaigning programme on two days due to his sudden illness.

Tej Pratap taunted Tejashwi while campaigning for Chandra Prakash, the candidate of his newly floated outfit “Lalu-Rabri Morcha” from Jehanabad seat. He also asked the Jehanabad voters not to support the RJD’s official candidate Surendra Yadav.