Many unkind words have been bandied about the educational qualifications (or rather, the lack thereof) of the Rashtriya Janata Dal heir apparent and leader of the opposition in Bihar, Tejaswi Yadav. While such cries have possibly grown louder only because his ambition of becoming Chief Minister have been thwarted for the time being, but in light of the current “pari-war" or Yadav family feud, it does seem like Tejaswi is indeed not as sharp as his name indicates.

For, even as the nation is lauding the fact that women voters have powered the return of “Sushashan Babu" Nitish Kumar to the CM’s chair, four of Tejaswi’s sisters, daughters of the Lalu Prasad-Rabri Devi brood, have allegedly been thrown out or walked off in a huff. And Tejaswi, the youngest of the nine children of Bihar’s first family of politics—how many scions can claim both their parents are former CMs as the Yadav siblings can?—is the focus of their ire.

It is admittedly not easy to be the youngest brother of seven sisters and also have a stroppy older brother, Tej Pratap. But it takes chutzpah (and parental approval) to stop short at junior high school in New Delhi when the sisters have sailed through medical, engineering and law schools in Bihar under the benevolent gaze of powerful parents and an obliging state machinery. Even Tej Pratap, widely known not to be of an academic bent of mind, cleared high school.

But a longer stint in the “college of life" may have done Tejaswi some good. It could have taught him some practical tips: such as (with apologies to Brad Pitt), The First Rule of Family (Fight) Club is “You do not fight with family." And you definitely do not throw slippers........

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