JINXED BY THE ‘R-FACTOR’

What do Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Radha Mohan Singh, Ram Kripal Yadav and Ravishankar Prasad have in common? Apart from being Lok Sabha MPs from Bihar, all four BJP leaders are former members of Narendra Modi’s cabinet. Not quite able to wrap their heads around the rationale of the reshuffle, partymen in Patna wrily proffer the ‘R-factor’ as the probable reason for the debacle of these gentlemen. Every minister from Bihar dropped in the past four years had an ‘R’ in his name—Rudy was dropped in 2017, Radha Mohan Singh and Ram Kripal Yadav in 2019, and Ravishankar Prasad in 2021.