Laloo biography

Inhe was re-elected to the Lok Sabha. InLalu was elected to Rajya Sabha and served till He held that position till During his tenure as Railway Minister, he looked for other revenue sources for the railways and left passenger fares untouched. He replaced plastic cups for serving tea at railway stations with Kulhars to generate employment in rural areas.

His strategies soon showed a profit worth crores, and Lalu's strategy attracted business schools worldwide who wanted to convert his experiments on the entity into case studies for business graduates. Consequently, Nitish Kumar came to power. In the elections, RJD got only 4 out of 44 seats it was competing from. InRJD could only win 22 seats in the Bihar assembly elections.

While Lalu Prasad Yadav tried to rejuvenate the party, his conviction in the fodder scam came as a major blow. Reportedly, this bonding often transforms into votes and Musahars prefers Lalu Prasad than any other political leader. In some of the regions of the rural area of South Bihar, after the establishment of rule of Janata Dal under Lalu Prasad, the realignment in the policy of militant organisations like Maoist Communist Centre was observed.

The MCC was dominated by the members of Yadav caste in the leadership position and the Schedule Castes served as the foot soldiers. The Rajputs also accepted the dominance of Naxalite groups over the time in some regions of south Bihar and the Bhumihars remained the major challenger to both the Naxalites as well as the rule of Lalu Prasad.

After perpetrating a number of laloo biography of DalitsRanvir Senathe caste based militia of Bhumihar caste perpetrated Miyanpur massacre inin Aurangabad, Bihar. In this massacre, the Yadav caste was victim; over 30 people were killed by Sena in this incident. However, it is reported that this incident set tone for decline of Sena. As the party of Lalu Prasad, which was in government took stringent administrative policies on one hand to counter Sena, on the other hand various naxalite group also resolved their internal differences and started an extermination campaign of the men of Sena in small operations.

The society of Bihar was divided into OBCsSCs and Forward Castes upper caste ; the forward castes had dominated the democratic institutions of the state in the rule of Congress and only a section of OBCs were politically conscious to think of replacing them from political power, this section, which included only three caste KoeriKurmi and Yadav also owned land in other parts of Bihar, but was poor in the areas dominated of the forward castes.

They took land on tenancy from the forward castes, as they were marginal farmers in these areas. A fair number of the OBCs were also employed in the state institutions and were among educated servicemen in the urban areas. They remained victims of the high handedness of the upper-caste colleagues and the rivalry between them was evolving over time.

In rural areas, the OBCs were also confronting the MBC or Extremely Backward Class also called Most Backward Castes, the category which includes more than hundred Backward Castes, other than trio of Koeri, Kurmi and Yadav and the Scheduled Castes, but the upper-castes treated all sections of Backward Castes in the same manner, causing much resentment among the elite section of the Backwards.

In the rural areas, the upper-castes countered the Most Backward Classes and Schedule Casteslaloo biography they laloo biography to eschew the village based livelihood options. They [upper-castes] reacted violently, when the MBC or the SCs tried to detach from any social institutions, that were symbol of low caste status. Since for different reasons, the OBCs, MBCs and the SCs were all pitted against the common rivals, the upper-castes, and the bitterness between the OBCs and the forward castes had strengthened after the anti-reservation protest launched by the upper-castes, unification of these social groups took place against the forward castes.

The rise of Lalu Prasad provided an opportunity to unite all these social groups and the Naxalite groups, which had many OBCs in the leadership positions, also supported the political party led by Lalu. Maoist Communist Centre of Indiaone of the most significant Naxalite group also sided with the interest of OBCs, and the MCC activists started providing armed backing to the Most Backward Classes and the Schedule Castes to exercise their franchise in order to led the candidates of Lalu's party towards victory.

Hence, for a while, the boundary between political and Naxalite movement got blurred. The forward castes were required to send large numbers of MLAs into the state legislature, but devoid of numerical strength and encountering aggressive backward classes, the forward castes started looting polling booths with the help of the state officials and police who were mainly from among the forward castes.

Subsequently the state became a biased entity. Thus, while most of the backward classes still reposed their faith in democratic struggle, a section of OBCs were attracted towards non-democratic ideas and organisations to confront the forward castes. According to Singh, when Lalu Prasad asked for support from the members of Backward Castes, he was actually asking it in order to change the entire social order, in which upper caste were at advantage.

The reservation policy introduced by the implementation of Mandal Commission recommendations though didn't benefitted the Scheduled Castes, yet they supported Lalu Prasad against the forward castes. According to a Social Scientistwho witnessed the encounter of Lalu with a person from the Musahar caste in North India, during his election campaign for Bihar Assembly elections, Lalu allegedly argued with latter, when he asked him to provide road infrastructure in the region.

As per narrative, Lalu Prasad believed that the investment by state in physical infrastructure were somehow meant for benefitting the upper castes, who were having significant presence at the higher level of bureaucracy and in professional services. Hence, he blatantly created disruption in the general process of development, until the Upper Backward Castes take over the Forward Castes in these services.

For the professional services like Doctors and Engineers too, same formula was implemented.

Laloo biography

According to author Arun Sinha, though Lalu and his colleague and successor Nitish Kumar belonged to same political roots, in the matter of quota politics and the politics of social justice for the deprived section of society, Kumar was accepted to upper castes. One reason behind this was step taken by Kumar for exclusion of well off section of the Backward Castes from the benefits of reservation in government jobs and other state sponsored program for social upliftment.

In contrast to Kumar, Lalu Prasad has been described by Sinha, and was perceived as a staunch anti-upper caste leader. It was during Rabari Devi's tenure that Senari carnage against the Bhumihars took place. In this incident, over hundred armed activists of MCC slaughtered 34 Bhumihars in the village called senari by brutally slitting their throats.

As per reports, Rabari Devi refused to visit Senari, probably because the village inhabitants and victims, being member of Bhumihar caste had always opposed her government. It was reported that after being implicated in corruption scandal, Lalu Prasad raised his wife to the post of Chief Minister; latter was reportedly illiterate, but this was not offensive to the poor of Bihar.

It is observed that for their plight, in the struggle against Dalit dominated naxal groups like MCC, Bhumihars prefer to blame Lalu, who is described as a champion of lower castes. Lalu's politics is described as being against the radical Hindu Nationalism promoted by political parties like Bhartiya Janata Party. He employed political symbolism to a large extent in order to confront the politics based on militant religious ideology.

In Aprilhe is reported to have organised a great rally at Gandhi MaidanPatna, which was aimed at radicalising his lower caste supporters and mobilising them against the politics of Bhartiya Janata Party and Vishwa Hindu Parishad VHP. In its rally, VHP was distributing Trishuls to the participants, which was a symbol of militant Hindu identity.

He said that, this implement Lathi of the rural poor, which was considered as the weapon of weak, will destroy the Trishul of hatred an implicit attack on BJP's and VHP's politics of religion. As per an eyewitness report, on the day of rally, the rural lower caste supporters of Lalu Prasad rushed towards Patna; many of them were brought in hurry by the local leaders of the Rashtriya Janata Dal to showcase their support to Lalu Prasad.

The rallygoers flooded the city armed with Lathisand in their way to Patna, many of them occupied the trains rushing towards city forcefully. Many windows of the trains were thrashed and the hostels located in Patna were occupied for the rallygoers. The crowd was so massive that the traffic in the city was destabilized for two days.

The supporters were told to apply oil to their Lathis and recite the slogan: Lathi pilavan, Patna laavan, Bhajpa bhagavan, Desh bachavan we will apply oil to our Lathis, bring it to Patna, remove the Bhartiya Janata Party and save the country. The large gathering of followers of Lalu Prasad in capital city of state of Bihar sybmolised the capture of the real centre of power by latter, as the city was reported to have flooded with Lathi welding supporters of Rashtriya Janata Dal, who were mostly the lower caste people coming from rural background.

Lalu's rally were contact point between him and his rural supporters. Ina massive "rally of the poor" Gareeb Rally was organised by Janata Dal. Author Bela Bhatiawho was an eyewitness of this rally organised at Patna has mentioned that the poor people who assembled at Patna, laloo biography provided free commutation facility to become a part of this rally.

There were numerous programmes organised by the office bearers of the Janata Dal for the rallyites. Bhatia has mentioned about the Trains, that were running on Arrah - Patna route, and carrying the rallyites to Patna. As per her description the Trains and Buses were carrying more pessengers than their capacity. Many of the people congregated at Patna either to lodge their grievances to the Chief Minister or in the hope of getting some monetary help.

Bhatia describes an event being sponsored by Janata Dal laloo biography Shyam Rajak for the entertainment of rallyites, symbolising the acquaintance of the Chief Minister, Lalu Prasad with the taste of his rural supporters. Later at around 10 that night as I made my way from one part of the city to another, I was witness near the station to an incongruous sight, "a randi ka nach' dance by a prostituteone of the many similar programmes organised in the city ostensibly for the 'manoranjan' recreation of the rallyites.

The shamiana was packed with villagers from far and near, the stage was set with green banners and under fluorescent lamps danced a young woman. A modern dancer with step-cut hair, a pink flare skirt swirling around her, as she danced with a mixture of western and traditional dance steps, to the tune of an alluring Magahi love song. In contrast to elections being based on money power, and the phenomenon of most of the candidates getting elected to houses of legislature in Bihar belonging to high income groups, RJD under Lalu Prasad has raised grassroot political workers from poor background to important positions in the politics of state.

This is done occasionally to showcase the pro-poor stand of Lalu Prasad. Sada has even claimed that, he and his family worship Lalu Prasad besides Sabari, the deity of Musahars. Lalu Prasad has been convicted and jailed in two scams. As of Januaryhe, his wife Rabri Devihis sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadavand his eldest daughter Misha Bharti were all facing charges in several other corruption cases.

Lalu was an accused party and later convicted in the first Fodder Scam case of Several allegations of embezzlement from the animal husbandry department were tabled between and In Januarya raid conducted on Chaibasa treasury indicated the siphoning off of funds by non-existent companies. Lalu ordered an inquiry to probe the irregularities.

The charge forced Lalu Prasad to resign from the office of Chief Minister, at which time he appointed his wife, Rabri Devi, to the office. Inthe Supreme Court of India transferred the scam cases to newly formed court in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The trial began in In AugustLalu Prasad tried to get the trial court judge transferred, but his plea was rejected by Supreme Court of India.

Lalu has been an accused in many of the odd cases filed. He has been remanded to custody on multiple occasions because of the number of cases. Over 64 people were convicted in the case. When the Supreme Court took exception to his guest house stay, he had also moved to the Beur jail in Patna. On 26 NovemberLalu was again remanded, in a case related to the fodder scam.

On 1 Octoberthe Supreme Court served a laloo biography to Lalu Prasad and his laloo biography in response to a petition which alleged that they have been interfering with the investigation. Ina disproportionate assets DA case arising out of the fodder scam was registered against Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi. The Bihar government wanted to appeal against the acquittal but the Supreme Court in ruled that the state government can not challenge such rulings.

Investigated by the Enforcement Directorate EDagainst Lalu, his wife, son Tejashwi, daughter Misha and others, arose from the alleged illegal proceeds of the Indian Railway tender scam. The Bihar government said that official procedure was duly followed in the case and prima facie no evidence of irregularity has come into light in zoo soil deal.

Updated: 31 May [ ]. Lalu Prasad was convicted in the controversial Fodder Scamand was serving a term until 17 Aprilwhen he was granted bail from the Jharkhand High Court in the corruption scandal. Lalu Prasad is one of the first noted politicians to lose parliamentary seat on being arrested in fodder scam as per Supreme Court decision banning convicted legislators to hold their posts.

Lalu's rule witnessed Yadav caste becoming assertive in the rural and urban landscape of Bihar, leading his opponents to coin the slogan of "Yadavisation" of Bihar's polity and administration. This fact was used by other political parties to dislodge his government on the charges of working for the benefit of a single caste group at the cost of various other backward communities.

Hence, despite the political mobilisation of backward castes in post mandal period, the upper-caste are still the highest income groups in Bihar. According to this report, the economic benefits of the Mandal politics could be seen as affecting only few backward castes of agrarian background leading to their upward mobilisation.

The Yadavs hence transformed their assertiveness to the upward mobility in the politics only while the other "Backward Castes" gained momentum in the other fields, though still the upper-caste dominance was retained in upper echelon of bureaucracy. Lalu Prasad has written his autobiography named Gopalganj to Raisina Road. Contents move to sidebar hide.

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He even found his way into the textbooks - a prestigious Indian management institute introduced a case study on his work in the ministry for its business students. As he continued to fascinate popular imagination in Bihar and in other parts of India, he inspired many Bollywood characters and Laloo dolls, which became hugely popular with children.