RJD's gen-next crisis: Tej, Tejashvi skip launch of membership drive

RJD’s gen-next crisis

The prolonged absence of Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejashvi Prasad Yadav — sons of jailed Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President Lalu Prasad — from their home turf of Bihar could not have come at a worse time. The party’s recruitment drive, launched on August 10 in Patna, was a no-show with the two brothers or their sister Misa Bharti not turning up. Not only was the response to the openings in the RJD tepid, the party was unable to fill half the 200 chairs at the venue. While Tej Pratap was in Jharkhand’s Deoghar, observing Saavan festivities before