When ties with mentor are strained

K C Tyagi is having a difficult time these days facing questions from journalists about Sharad Yadav

Janata Dal (United) General Secretary K C Tyagi is having a difficult time these days fielding questions from journalists about his one-time mentor Sharad Yadav. A Rajya Sabha member of the party, Yadav has been openly critical of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s decision to ally with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Yadav and Tyagi were comrades in arms during their younger, poorer days, living for eight years in a one-room tenement before the two entered Parliament in 1989. Tyagi has desisted from using sharp words against Yadav but is under pressure from the party to read the riot act