It is unfortunate that Lalu has urged Bal Thackeray to take vanprastha and sanyas. Lalu is still advocating the Brahmanical system of four ashrams of Ved Dharma, which were effortfully eliminated in the country's constitution of B R Ambedkar. Lalu should remember that as per Varnashram, he is a low caste person fit only to clean toilets and not enter politics and become a Union minister