Politics & Power Quote by Lalu Prasad Yadav

Credit is the real currency here, and Lalu Prasad Yadav spends it the way he always has: loudly, personally, and with a wink at the rules of elite political decorum. "It is because of me" turns a bureaucratic act - sanctioned special funds - into a one-man achievement. The line is less about Bihar's development than about ownership of the pipeline: who can make Delhi move, who can convert state neglect into a deliverable, who can perform clout in public.

The intent is double-edged. On the surface, its a claim of effectiveness: I got the center to pay attention. Underneath, its a reminder of dependency and brokerage, the classic North Indian power grammar where access to the union government is not assumed but negotiated. Lalu frames governance as a transactional theater: funds arrive not through neutral policy but through the intervention of a leader with muscle in Parliament and leverage in coalition math. That subtext flatters his base and needles his rivals at the same time: if you want results, you need me in the room.

Context matters because Bihar has long been treated as a punchline in national development narratives, and Lalu built a career by weaponizing that grievance while also embodying the messy realities of patronage politics. The quote works because it collapses the impersonal state into an identifiable protagonist. In a system where accountability is blurry and institutions feel distant, personalization becomes persuasion: not ideal civics, but effective storytelling.