The Yadav dynasty's fortress at 10 Circular Road in Patna turned into a ghost of its former glory on Monday morning, as three more of Lalu Prasad's daughters—Rajlakshmi, Ragini, and Chanda—packed their bags, scooped up their children, and boarded flights to Delhi, escalating a family feud that erupted just 24 hours earlier when eldest sibling Rohini Acharya dramatically quit politics and severed all ties with the clan. What started as one daughter's explosive exit has mushroomed into a mass exodus, leaving the once-unassailable RJD patriarch's residence echoing with absence and signaling deeper fractures within Bihar's most powerful political family.

The trigger came Sunday when Rohini, who unsuccessfully contested the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Saran, unleashed allegations of relentless harassment and threats from RJD MP Sanjay Yadav and his aide Rameez, directly implicating them in orchestrating the discord that she claims poisoned the family dynamic. Her departure left only Lalu, ailing former chief minister Rabri Devi, and their eldest daughter Misa Bharti rattling around the sprawling bungalow that for decades served as the nerve center of RJD operations, strategy sessions, and power brokering—now reduced to a hollow symbol of faded dominance after the party's dismal haul of just 25 seats in the recent assembly elections.

Adding fuel to the inferno, Lalu's mercurial son Tej Pratap Yadav, freshly at the helm of his splinter outfit Janshakti Janata Dal, posted a gut-wrenching video appeal to his father, decrying the "unbearable" treatment meted out to Rohini and issuing a cryptic warning to unnamed "traitors" and "new faces" he accused of manipulating younger brother Tejashwi's decisions. "This injustice will have grave consequences," he thundered, pleading for Lalu's intervention to salvage the family's honor while neither Tejashwi nor his close confidant Sanjay Yadav has deigned to address the bombshell claims, further stoking suspicions of an internal purge.

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As the RJD reels from its electoral drubbing, the party has scrambled to convene an emergency review meeting of its 25 newly elected MLAs and top brass on Monday, ostensibly to dissect the poll debacle but likely to grapple with the fallout from this domestic earthquake that threatens to splinter loyalties and erode the Yadav clan's iron grip on Bihar's opposition space. Spokesperson Chitranjan Gagan confirmed the huddle will probe the "poor performance," yet insiders whisper that the real agenda revolves around damage control amid whispers of betrayal and succession wars.

With four daughters now estranged and the family home stripped of its bustling energy, the RJD faces an existential crisis: Lalu's health woes, Tejashwi's silence, and Tej Pratap's rebellion paint a picture of a dynasty in freefall, where personal vendettas could torpedo political revival efforts just as Bihar's assembly gears up for fresh battles, leaving loyalists wondering if the Yadav magic has finally run its course.

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