Lonely battle for Rabri brother Subhash Yadav

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After failing to prove to be a good relative to his brother-in-law Lalu Prasad Yadav and sister Rabri Devi, former RJD MP Subhash Yadav is fighting a lone battle as an Independent candidate in Bihar’s Assembly polls and projecting himself to voters as “aapka apna beta (your own son)”.
For the flamboyant younger brother-in-law of the RJD chief, contesting in Bikram constituency in rural Patna district as an Independent candidate strikes many in Bihar as an utterly incongruous situation. His travels in expensive cars and holding unofficial meetings with bureaucrats during the 15 years of RJD rule are still fresh in public memory.
But Mr Yadav, whose election symbol now is a teacup and a saucer, himself invited this unenviable situation by his unseemly revolt against the RJD boss in September.
In advertisements currently on display in Patna newspapers, Mr Yadav is seeking votes in very polite words and promises to stay with the people of Bikram constituency no matter if he won or lost the polls.
The advertisement twice mentions the former Rajya Sabha MP as “your own son” and describes him as “Raja nahin fakir hai, Bikram ka taqdeer hai (I am no king but a pauper; I am the destiny of Bikram constituency)”.
But his sister and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi herself is queering his pitch by describing him as her enemy in her campaign speeches. Rabri Devi, who refused to support Mr Yadav when the RJD boss denied him a re-nomination to the Rajya Sabha in June, on Tuesday asked her estranged brother to “go back to native Gopalganj and do farming”.
Subhash Yadav quit the RJD in September hoping to join the Congress and foulmouthed the RJD chief, but the Congress did not want to welcome another rejected brother-in-law of the RJD chief.
Sadhu Yadav, the more infamous elder brother-in-law of Lalu Prasad Yadav, had joined the Congress last year and lost the Lok Sabha polls on a Congress ticket.