Patna: Their father may be in jail, but the brothers are taking up the party's reins.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad's sons on Friday focused on the party organisational set-up, with younger son Tejashwi Yadav continuing his division-wise meeting at his official residence for the third day and older son Tej Pratap Yadav convening a meeting of the RJD student wing.

"I will appeal to the leaders of my party to give respect to party workers and not neglect or ignore them. Our workers are the real power of the RJD," Tejashwi said at the meeting in which leaders including MLAs from Jehanabad, Aurangabad, Gaya, Arwal and Nawada districts were present.

"The RJD does not belong to any particular caste, religion or community, it is a party of all communities," the leader of Opposition told his party leaders. "If any community feels they are being neglected, the RJD will fight for them without any discrimination," Tejashwi said. "The RJD has always struggled for the rights of the downtrodden and the suppressed.

"The RJD does not any have grudges or animosity against any particular caste and those who are spreading rumours are not the well-wishers of society and are selfish people. It is the duty of every RJD worker to spread the message of Lalu ji; he is an ideology," he added.

Several senior leaders including RJD Bihar president Ram Chandra Purbey were present at the meeting.

At Tej Pratap's meeting, in which RJD national vice-president Shivanand Tiwari, former minister Alok Mehta, Tejashwi and Purbey were present, the former state health minister asked the student wing to spread the message of his father and strengthen the party at the grass-root level.