Undeterred by the sweltering heat, leaders and workers of the RJD in Bihar on Sunday celebrated the 76th birthday of Lalu Prasad, the party's founding president.
Feasts were organised for the poor by RJD workers in several parts of the city while senior leaders, who greeted their leader in person, joined him in savouring a huge cake, weighing 76 pounds, which was cut in presence of followers and family members.
The uniqueness of the occasion was enhanced by the twin facts of the party now being in power, and the septuagenarian supremo being in town, unlike past many years when prison sentences and poor health kept him away from his people on his birthday.