India, May 28 -- Anybody who follows politics in Bihar will know that Tej Pratap Yadav, the elder son of Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav, is no stranger to controversies and idiosyncrasies. A lot of these were tolerated and taken note of because of who he was - the son of one of the most powerful politicians Bihar has ever seen who is, even today, an undeniable pole of the bipolar polity in the state.

The latest controversy around Tej Pratap's expulsion from the RJD - his father and the party's national president announced it on a post on microblogging site X (formerly twitter) - after his revelations of having been in a relationship with a woman should ideally be a completely personal matter for Tej Pratap and h...