Alinagar MLA Mishri Lal Yadav Quits BJP Citing Dalit–OBC Neglect

Alinagar MLA Mishri Lal Yadav announced his resignation from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday, October 11, 2025, accusing the saffron giant of sidelining Dalits and Other Backward Classes (OBCs). The Darbhanga district legislator, addressing a charged press conference in Patna, said he’d personally deliver his resignation to state BJP president Dilip Jaiswal, signaling a bitter split just weeks before the state’s high-octane Assembly elections on November 6 and 11. Yadav’s exit, laced with allegations of systemic neglect, threatens to dent the NDA’s carefully crafted caste coalition in a state where OBC and Dalit votes are kingmakers.

Yadav, a 2020 victor who flipped the Alinagar seat for the NDA, didn’t hold back. “I won Alinagar against heavyweights with money and muscle—something no one else could do,” he declared, referencing his triumph on a Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) ticket that ended decades of opposition dominance in the constituency. His defection to the BJP in 2022, alongside three other VIP MLAs, came after the NDA expelled VIP chief Mukesh Sahni from Nitish Kumar’s cabinet. But whispers of the BJP benching Yadav for a celebrity candidate—rumored to be singer Maithili Thakur—ignited his fury. “The party has no respect for Dalits or OBCs. It’s become a club for the elite, crushing the poor and backward,” he charged, claiming his self-respect as an MLA was trampled.

The timing couldn’t be worse for the BJP, which faces a do-or-die battle to hold its 80 seats in Bihar’s 243-member assembly against the RJD-led INDIA bloc’s caste arithmetic. Yadav’s exit amplifies tensions within the NDA, where allies like Jitan Ram Manjhi and Upendra Kushwaha are already bristling over ticket allocations. His 2020 win—edging out RJD’s Binod Mishra by a razor-thin 3,100 votes—proved his clout in Alinagar’s mixed Yadav, Brahmin, and Muslim electorate. But recent turbulence, including a brief disqualification in June 2025 over a 2019 assault case (later overturned by the Patna High Court), left him feeling expendable. “They don’t value leaders who fight for the marginalized,” he said, hinting at broader discontent among OBC and Dalit ranks.

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While Yadav kept mum on his next move, buzz suggests he’s cozying up to the opposition INDIA bloc, led by Lalu Prasad’s RJD, which could weaponize his defection to woo Yadav-OBC voters in Darbhanga and beyond. The RJD, riding a caste-census wave, smells blood as the NDA scrambles to plug leaks before the November 14 vote count. Yadav’s saga isn’t just personal—it’s a symptom of a fracturing alliance where ticket snubs and community slights risk alienating Bihar’s core vote banks. Will he emerge as the opposition’s new poster boy, or has the BJP’s gamble on star power backfired? As the campaign trail heats up, Yadav’s rebellion could rewrite Bihar’s electoral script.

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