In this file photo, then cabinet ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and Arjun Singh coming out from PMO after a cabinet meeting in New Delhi. Ra...
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad celebrates his 73rd birthday at his ward at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Ranchi....
Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) members and supporters celebrate the birthday of party supremo Lalu Prasad with needy people, outside the paying ward of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sci...
In this file photo, Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan (R) with RJD Chief Lalu Prasad during promotion of his upcoming film 'Madari' in Patna. Khan, one of India’s finest and most versa...
Former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad (C) being taken to a special CBI court to record his statement in fodder scam cases, in Ranchi. Lalu is...
Rashtiya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) chief Upendra Kushwaha arrives to meet with Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav at the paying ward of Rajendra Institute of Medical...
Laloo with Jyoti Basu and V.P. Singh in 1994
Laoo meeting his supporters at his residence, 1995
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav talks to the media as he leaves for Ranchi after the expiry of his granted bail, in Patna.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav being released on a 3-day parole to attend his elder son Tej Pratap's wedding ceremony to be held in Patna, in Ranchi
Congress President Rahul Gandhi meets RJD chief Lalu Prasad to inquire about his health at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.
RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav after being discharged from AIIMS arrives at New Delhi Railway station in New Delhi.
Former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav with daughter Misa Bharti leave from New Delhi railway station for treatment at Delhi's All India Institutes of Medica...
Special CBI Court Judge Shivpal Singh comes out of Video Conferencing e-Court Room after pronouncing the quantum of punishment in the fourth Dumka Fodder Scam case in Ranchi
Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav leaves special CBI court after being pronounced guilty in the fourth Dumka multi-crore fodder scam case, in Ranchi
Former Bihar chief minister and RJD Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav greets people while entering the Special CBI court in fodder scam case, in Ranchi.
Former Bihar chief minister and RJD Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav arrives to appear before the special CBI court in connection with the multi-crore fodder scam case in Ranchi.
Former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav being taken to the Special CBI Court from Birsa Munda Jail, in Ranchi. In the third fodder scam case related to fradulent withdrawal from Chaibasa...
Former Chief Minister of Bihar and RJD chief, Lalu Prasad Yadav arrives at Special CBI court in connection on Fodder scam case, in Ranchi.
More HereLalu is a happy man: happy to have risen to become rich, beloved, and reviled all over India; happy that a grateful nation credits him with whipping its beleaguered rail system into profitability; and happy that he’s managed to do all this and somehow stay out of jail. Under his leadership, Indian Railways has gone from bankruptcy to billions in just a few years. When Lalu presented his latest budget to Parliament on February 13, he bragged, "Hathi ko cheetah bana diya" ("I have turned an elephant into a cheetah"). What’s his secret?
“Cow dung,” he says. “I have 350 cows, including bulls. Cow dung—no need of gas.” Everyone tells me about Lalu’s “rustic common sense,” though I’m unsure how burning manure for fuel has made Indian trains suddenly run profitably. But his point is a broad one, about systems efficiency and country wisdom and resourcefulness. “Railways is like a Jersey cow. If you do not milk it fully, it gets tenail,” a swollen and infected udder. Milk every last drop out of Indian Railways, Lalu told his subordinates, and it will prosper.
...“My mother has taught me to take the bull by the horns,” Lalu said. “If you try to take it by the tail, it will kick you in the ass.” “No other minister could summon the courage to do this,” Kumar explains.
