Yadav, who wanted to contest from Pataliputra seat, however, has so far not resigned from RJD and also not resigned as Rajya Sabha member — in an indication that he is still open to an idea of some adjustment within the party.
Party sources, however, clearly said that Yadav would not get Pataliputra seat. They said only Misa would contest from the seat.
Ramkripal Yadav announced his decision to resign from party post a day after Misa laid siege to his Delhi residence, offering him the seat allotted to her.
He said Misa's decision to visit his residence to mollify him on Friday was a kind of "emotional atyachar" on her part.
Though Yadav agreed to accept Misa's offer, it is now clear that Lalu Prasad has refused him to contest from Pataliputra and preferred his daughter to contest from this Yadav-dominated seat.
Misa on Friday announced that she was willing to leave the seat for Yadav, provided the party senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP met her and expressed the reason of his unhappiness.
Yadav, however, preferred not to face her. The moment Misa landed at his 18, Mother Teresa Crescent residence on Friday afternoon, he quietly slipped out of his residence from backdoor leaving RJD chief's daughter with no option but to wait there for hours.
Misa, Lalu Prasad's eldest daughter, told TOI that had she been any inkling of Yadav's choice for Patliputra seat, she would have not at all agreed for contesting from there.
She said, "I am willing to leave this seat for her senior party leader once he meets her and tells her the reason for his unhappiness".
She decided to meet Yadav when she saw him giving interviews to TV channels in which he expressed his unhappiness about the party's decision to field Misa from Pataliputra seat and even hinted to leave the party in protest.
Since Yadav remained incommunicado when even his family members expressed their inability to tell anything about his whereabouts, Misa, joined by her software engineer husband Shailesh, preferred to wait for him in his living room. She had left Yadav's residence only after waiting for him over five hours.
Though Misa claimed to leave her Patliputra seat for party general secretary, sources close to RJD supremo said it would not be possible saying this Yadav-dominated parliamentary seat is like "Amethi of Bihar" (referring to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's parliamentary seat). Referring to conviction of RJD chief in a corruption case which disallows him to contest, they pointed out that had Lalu Prasad been able to contest, he would have opted for this seat.
A party leader said, "Would you expect Rahul Gandhi to leave Amethi for any senior Congress leader? If Ramkripalji is willing to contest, he can opt for other seats (Motihari or Madhepura) which are yet to be given to anyone."
Party sources said it had been quite clear for long that the RJD chief would prefer this 'safe' Yadav-dominated seat to go to any of his family members. He opted for his eldest daughter who had shown interest in politics. She was named Misa as she was born when her father was in jail under the controversial Maintenance of Internal Security Act (now repealed), providing indefinite "preventive" detention of individuals.
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