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Yadav, also known as Rajesh Ranjan, has written his autobiography "Drohkaal Ka Pathik", which was released by well-known Hindi litterateur Namwar Singh in the presence of Mulayam Singh Yadav, Digvijay Singh, Ram Vilas Paswan and Jagdish Tytler this week. The book, according to Yadav, attempts to clear the wrong perceptions about him. He has alleged in the book that the BJP and the Congress tried to bribe him in 1998 and in 2008 respectively, to retain their governments at the Centre.

"One faces a lot of hurdles while moving upwards, especially when he is from a backward caste and popular. The same happened in his case. People tried to throttle him. He was framed wrongly in cases. He was so fed up with all this that he once confided to me that he wanted to consume poison. But I supported him and asked him to fight. The book is a manifestation of his anger," she said.

Yadav migrated from party to party to win several Lok Sabha elections. He was an Independent, then a part of the RJD, the Lok Janshakti Party and the Samajwadi Party. He was charged with the murder of Ajit Sarkar, a CPI-M leader belonging to the Purnea-Katihar belt. The murder took place in 1998 and he was arrested in 1999. He continued to win elections from inside the jail. In 2008, a CBI court sentenced him along with former MLA Rajan Tiwari and criminal Anil Yadav. He spent many years in jail but was acquitted by the Patna High Court this year for want of evidence. He was also involved in several other criminal cases.

The book gives his account of several interesting incidents that he witnessed during his political career. Recalling how he managed a crowd for a rally for V.P. Singh and Lalu Prasad Yadav at Patna's Gandhi Maidan, Yadav writes in his book: "V.P. Singh was organising rallies for full implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations for reservation to backward classes. I was given responsibility to bring people from Bihar's Purvanchal areas. I arranged as many as 500 buses and 1,000 cars/jeeps to transport people from Purnea and neighbouring areas for the rally. We kept with us various kinds of arms and ammunitions, half of them without licences. We kept bombs with us as we got information that forward castes from Begusarai and Mokama were preparing to stop us," he has written.

He also mentions about his encounter with godman Chandra Swami: "I along with my friends went to Chandra Swami's ashram. There were several 'common' as well as 'VIP' people. Among them was Vidya Charan Shukla, three other ministers and a senior government official. I also went in his room, which was full of his photographs. We had a talk with him for 10-15 minutes. I though that he was a big astrologer. But I found out that he did not know astrology at all. Instead he would take assistance from other astrologers. In my view he was a pure liaison man who had made inroads in political circles."

Yadav also recalls how the wedding of his sister (in 2002) was being compared with Lalu's daughter's wedding, which showed his "growing profile" in Bihar politics. The book contains a portion of a write-up which appeared in a magazine saying: "Pappu Yadav managed bring the top stars of film world, which Lalu could not do for his daughter Rohini's wedding. Lalu Yadav's people claimed that Shahrukh Khan, Hritik Roshan etc would come to attend Rohini's wedding. But finally, only one prominent figure -- Sunil Shetty – turned up . But in the case of Pappu Yadav, the entire film industry descended on Patna. The guests included Shakti Kapoor, Asrani, Raju Srivastava, Chunky Pandey, Shabbir Kumar, Md Aziz, Udit Narayan, Sapana Awasthi etc."

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