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Lalu Prasad Yadav Is Depressed
Swarajya Staff
Sep 11, 2018, 05:40 PM | Updated 05:40 PM IST
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Nearly a week after he was shifted to the paying ward of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) after complaining that he could not get sleep because of barking dogs and mosquito menace, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is suffering from depression, The Indian Express reported.
RIMS authorities had earlier accepted his request for being shifted to the paying ward. RIMS director R K Shrivastava confirmed that the senior politician is suffering from depression. He added that "that depression was also mentioned in the medical discharge slip from AIIMS."
Interestingly, some media reports have "attributed", Lalu Yadav's depression to "corruption cases affecting his family and also reports of political one-upmanship between his two sons," the English daily reported.
On his sons, IE reported that "Prasad has already publicly shown his preference for younger son Tejashwi Yadav as his heir apparent. But elder son Tej Pratap Yadav, a senior minister in the previous grand alliance, has high public standing."
There has been, however, no update from the hospital authorities, on whether a psychiatrist would see Lalu Yadav. The leader is convicted in fodder scam. He surrendered before a CBI court in Ranchi on 30 August.
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