Bihar Post-Poll Shock: BJP Loses R.K. Singh, RJD Family Rift Erupts Rohini Acharya’s eviction.

The results of the Bihar assembly elections, which saw a close finish, have delivered an immediate and dramatic double crisis to the state's two principal national parties: a profound integrity challenge to the BJP and a complete public implosion of the RJD's ruling family structure.

In two high-profile, separate incidents immediately following the vote count for the 243 seats, the Bihar political landscape has been rocked by the resignation of a principled bureaucrat-turned-politician from the BJP and an eviction saga at the residence of Lalu Prasad Yadav, underscoring deep-seated issues of moral compromise and dynastic dysfunction.

R.K. Singh’s principled parting and the BJP’s moral arithmetic

The biggest institutional blow has landed on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with former Union Home Secretary and Lok Sabha member from Ara, R.K. Singh, resigning as a primary member of the party.

R.K.Singh, a celebrated 1975-batch IAS officer known for having arrested L.K. Advani during his Somnath-Ayodhya yatra in 1990, had been earlier suspended by the state unit for making "damaging statements" during the campaign.

The essence of his rebellion lay in two explosive, public charges. Firstly, an allegation of a massive ₹62,000 crore corruption in the allotment of a state power project. Secondly, a direct appeal to the voters to "reject the criminal elements" fielded by the NDA in the assembly elections.

In his resignation letter addressed to Party President J.P. Nadda, Singh stated his public statements were solely motivated by a desire to prevent corruption and the criminalisation of politics. His exit immediately frames the BJP’s post-poll victory in Bihar—or any electoral alliance—as a clear-cut choice between political expediency and institutional integrity. For a party that often campaigns on a platform of clean governance, the voluntary departure of a veteran administrator like Singh, who directly protests the fielding of criminal nominees, represents a significant crisis of character.

Lalu’s Lacerated Legacy: The Third Eviction at 10, Circular Road

The crisis facing the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is less institutional and far more visceral and domestic, exposing the deep fractures within the Yadav political family. The Lalu Prasad Yadav residence at 10, Circular Road, Patna, has seen its third high-profile public eviction, this time involving Lalu’s second daughter, Ms. Rohini Acharya.

Ms. Acharya, who garnered national respect after donating a kidney to her father, Lalu Prasad Yadav, departed the residence late Saturday night. The incident is the latest in a series of dramatic expulsions from the family stronghold: her elder brother, Tejpratap Yadav, left the house earlier in May this year following a family and party fallout, which itself came two years after her elder sister-in-law, Aishwarya Rai, was allegedly thrown out of the bungalow.

The daughter turned on the party's inner circle in an explosive statement to the media, alleging she was "asked to leave" by Sanjay Yadav and Ramij, identified as "friends of Tejashwi Yadav." She further levelled severe personal allegations, claiming she was hit by chappals and abuses were hurled at her.Tejpratap has blamed Sanjay Yadav who is called Jaichand for the RJD debacle

Crucially, Ms. Acharya did not limit her anger to the domestic sphere. She directly attributed the RJD’s "crushing defeat" in the assembly elections to the influence and machinations of the same two individuals, Sanjay Yadav and Ramij. This statement transforms a private family dispute into a very public, devastating challenge to the leadership and judgement of her younger brother, Tejashwi Yadav, by linking the party’s electoral failure to his inner circle.

The Consequence: Instability Beyond the Mandate

Taken together, these two events confirm that the end of the Bihar poll process has not brought stability, but has instead initiated a period of dramatic political reckoning.

While the BJP must now deal with the optics of its most high-profile anti-corruption voice walking out—a clear signal that the party's embrace of expedient realpolitik has trumpeted institutional ethics—the RJD remains mired in a perpetual state of personal and political chaos, where the familial constantly and violently undermines the democratic project. The political centre of Bihar is holding, but the moral and domestic foundations of its two main national players are visibly beginning to crack.