NEW DELHI: With a kidney transplant due at month-end in Singapore, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is happy on one count: his daughter will be the donor. Rohini Acharya, Lalu’s second daughter, is a homemaker living with her three children in Singapore with her software engineer husband Samresh Singh.
She is an MBBS and is known for taking on the BJP and others opposed to her father’s party. Speaking to this newspaper, from Singapore, she said: “Yes, I am going to donate my kidney to papa. I feel blessed.”
Meanwhile, RJD sources said Lalu would visit Singapore between November 20 and 24 for the transplant surgery.
Rohini is said to have played a key role in bringing her father for medical consultation to Singapore and arranging a meeting with acclaimed doctors. Lalu was also under treatment at Delhi’s AIIMS. Sources said the RJD stalwart had initially declined to accept the kidney from Rohini. However, she was able to persuade others in the party and family.
Lalu, 74, returned last month from Singapore, where he had gone for treatment. The three-time Bihar chief minister has been suffering from multiple health problems. Rohini had in a tweet last month shared photos with her father. “This country needs your presence so that the country can fight tyrannical thinking,” she wrote. Lalu is currently in Delhi, and is out on bail. He was jailed for his role in fodder scam cases. He has been hospitalised several times in Delhi and Ranchi for various ailments.