India, Nov. 17 -- Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday urged people and party workers to focus on party unity and improving the party's performance, and not the internal tussle within the party's first family.

"This is an internal family matter and will be resolved within the family. I am there to deal with it," Lalu Prasad said at a meeting of party legislators in Patna that unanimously selected younger son Tejashwi Yadav as the leader of the RJD legislative party.

Lalu Prasad's remarks come against the backdrop of his daughter Rohini Acharya's public outburst on social media, in which she announced her exit from politics on Saturday and declared that she was "disowning" her family. The 46-year-old has attribute...