Lalu’s brother-in-law Sadhu Yadav may spoil RJD’s chance to wrest Gopalganj from BJP

During the previous RJD regime in the State, Sadhu Yadav was infamous for his criminal acts and antecedents

In the upcoming bypoll in Gopalganj, Anirudh Prasad Yadav alias Sadhu Yadav, the brother-in-law of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, may spoil the chances of RJD’s effort to wrest the seat from BJP which has been winning from there for the last four consecutive terms.

During the previous RJD regime in the State, Sadhu Yadav was infamous for his criminal acts and antecedents.

In Bihar, the bypoll for two assembly seats, Mokama and Gopalganj is scheduled to be held on November 3 and the counting will be done on November 6.

The bypoll for the Gopalganj seat was necessitated following the untimely death of its sitting MLA and cooperative minister in the previous NDA government Subhash Singh on August 16 this year.

Singh had been winning the seat consecutively since 2005.

In the bypoll, BJP has fielded Singh’s wife Kusum Devi, apparently to garner sympathy votes which, political analysts say, “becomes decisive especially in a bypoll”.

The ruling party, the RJD has fielded a local party leader and leading businessman from Vaishya (trading) community Mohan Gupta, hoping to make a dent in the BJP’s traditional Vaishya vote bank.