DH Popcorn | Son uprising: Tales from Bihar

Tej Pratap Yadav, son of Lalu Prasad Yadav, has just announced that he is forming a coalition of five small parties to contest the upcoming Assembly elections in Bihar.

One of nine siblings, Tej Pratap, who was married to Aishwarya Rai (yes, that's her name), was expelled from his father’s party, the RJD, soon after he posted online that he was in a relationship with a woman called Anushka. Haanji. Not easy to understand what goes on in these political families — Bengaluru has quite a few — and what is right and what is wrong in their scheme of things.

Tejashwi Yadav, Tej Pratap’s younger brother, is leading the RJD in the elections coming up later this year. Lalu was in jail, convicted in what has come to be known as the fodder scam, in which some Rs 940 crore was chewed up by the high and mighty. And now, fodder is upset with Tej Pratap over his 'irresponsible behaviour'. Sorry, typo. Make that father....