Last Updated on November 16, 2025 2:04 pm by INDIAN AWAAZ
Staff Reporter / Patna
After the crushing defeat of the Rashtriya Janata Dal in the elections, internal differences within the party have deepened. Party leader and former Chief Minister Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya has expressed anger and announced that she is quitting the Rashtriya Janata Dal as well as severing ties with the Lalu family.
Speaking to the media, she said the party had suffered a massive defeat and workers were asking questions about who was responsible. Rohini said that when she raised these questions, she was threatened by Tejashwi Yadav’s advisor, Sanjay Yadav and Rameez Khan. Rohini Acharya has contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from the Saran parliamentary constituency.
She told reporters that she took the decision after RJD MP Sanjay Yadav asked her. The MP is also a close aide of Acharya’s brother, Tejashwi Yadav. “This is what Sanjay Yadav had asked me to do,” Acharya, who had donated a kidney to her father, said.
She also mentioned another name – Rameez Nemat Khan.
Who is this man who came into the spotlight following the allegations made by Acharya? This name was not seen in the media or Bihar politics earlier.
It turned out Rameez Nemat Khan is an old friend of Tejashwi Yadav and a part of his core team. Their friendship extended from the cricket ground to politics. RJD sources said Khan oversees social media and campaigning teams of his friend and the party.
A resident of Uttar Pradesh, Rameez Nemat Khan is the son-in-law of former MP Rizwan Zaheer from Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur Lok Sabha seat, now known as Shravasti. Rameez Nemat Khan’s father-in-law served as a two-time MP on a Samajwadi Party ticket as well as Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). He also contested as an independent candidate once.
Rizwan Zaheer was also the youngest MLA in UP at one point.
Rameez Nemat Khan’s wife Zeba Rizwan was a candidate from Tulsipur seat which she could not win twice – in a Congress ticket and as an independent while in jail.
Rameez Nemat Khan faced a case linked to violence during the district panchayat election in Tulsipur in 2021. The allegation against him said he attacked Congress leader Deepankar Singh and his men.
Subsequently, in 2022, Rameez Nemat Khan, his wife, father-in-law Rizwan Zaheer and three others were arrested for allegedly conspiracy linked to the murder case of Firoz Pappu, the former president of Tulsipur Nagar panchayat.
Rameez Nemat Khan has been granted bail in several cases, while some are pending. Nine cases were filed against him in Balrampur and two in Kaushambi.