Former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janta Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav who turned 78 remains a towering Socialist stalwart who has always believed in standing and speaking up against oppression and injustice crippling the poor and downtrodden.
Lalu has actually been considered a messiah by this section knowing exactly how he had to stream his politics of social justice, pride and dignity by forming an alliance and coalition of numerically smaller castes like Pasi, Dusadh and Paswan.
He boosted his credentials of a leadership and knew no bounds when it came to curating a constituency with these groups and communities, shaping him as an icon with an insight well versed in devising and delivering social good through policies, SOPs and schemes, earning their reputation as a political practitioner and strategist acquainted with the practical realities of Bihar where class quarrels and conflicts in the name of allocation and distribution of reasonable resources played to the wall.
Minus Lalu these groups could have languished far behind with their issues, being hard-pressed and resolved as a product of the JP Movement Lalu realised what a social movement meant for transforming the faith of millions fighting for representation of their views and voices.
Lalu ne inko swarg toh nahi diya par swar zaroor diya jisse ki woh apni ek vishisht pehchaan bana sake.