The very colourful Lalu Prasad turns 64

Jun 11, 2012 13:26pm

Lalu Prasad is a charismatic and colourful leader whose trademark humour can make a budget speech sound like a stand-up routine.

Lalu Prasad milks a cow inside his residence before unveiling the 2009/10 railway budget at the Parliament in New Delhi February 13, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer
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Lalu Prasad plays cricket in this file photo. He handed over the reins of chief minister to his wife in 1997 after being implicated in a large-scale corruption scandal, but most believed he still called the shots.
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Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and Bollywood actress Masumi Makhija seen during filming in Patna. REUTERS/Ravi S Sahani
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Lalu Prasad plays Holi in Patna.
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Lalu Prasad is seen with actor Dev Anand in this file photo.
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Lalu Yadav sits down to a meal with his wife Rabri Devi in this file photo.
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Lalu milks a cow at his residence in Patna.
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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Chief Lalu Prasad (2nd R) and Samajwadi Party (SP) Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav (L) shout slogans during a protest outside the Parliament in New Delhi March 8, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer
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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad attends an election campaign rally in Chandigarh May 11, 2009. REUTERS/Ajay Verma
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Former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav (C) arrives at Parliament to unveil the 2009/10 railway budget in New Delhi February 13, 2009. REUTERS/B Mathur
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(From L - R) Jan Shakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh attend a meeting in Lucknow April 3, 2009. REUTERS/Pawan Kumar
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Jan Shakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan (R) talks with Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad during an election campaign rally at Kishanganj in Bihar April 6, 2009. REUTERS/Krishna Murari Kishan
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Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav (R) talks with Jan Shakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan (L) as Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad listens during their joint election campaign rally in Safai, in Uttar Pradesh April 9, 2009. REUTERS/Pawan Kumar
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(L-R) India's Jan Shakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav raise their hands during their joint election campaign rally in Safai, in Uttar Pradesh April 9, 2009. REUTERS/Pawan Kumar
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Leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (National People's Party or RJD), Lalu Prasad, speaks during a news conference in Patna November 22, 2005. REUTERS/Krishna Murari Kishan
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Former Railways Minister Lalu Prasad (L) addresses the media as senior communist leader Sitaram Yechury looks on after a meeting in New Delhi June 25, 2008. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (wearing turban), Sonia Gandhi (C) and Lalu Prasad (R), wave after flagging off Kashmir's first-ever train in Srinagar October 11, 2008. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli
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Lalu Prasad Yadav speaks before flagging off a new train 'Garib Rath' for the poor in Jammu April 6, 2008. REUTERS/Amit Gupta
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