Former MP Ranjan Yadav, a trusted aide of Lalu Prasad in 1990s, on Tuesday joined the BJP and lashed out at the RJD chief for presiding over ‘jungle raj’ in Bihar during his party’s 15-year rule.

Mothers and daughters never felt safe on the streets as utter lawlessness prevailed in Bihar during the RJD rule with murder, kidnapping and related crimes being order of the day, he alleged after joining the BJP in presence of Union Minister Ananth Kumar at the party office in Patna.

Mr. Yadav tore to shreds Mr. Prasad’s pet agenda of ‘Mandal politics’ and social justice saying that the RJD chief stood for neither, as the RJD government did not fill up five lakh vacancies in government jobs during its entire rule to deprive 1.35 lakh OBC youths of jobs post-implementation of the Mandal Commission report in 1993 providing 27 per cent reservation for the OBCs in government jobs.

Similarly, Mr. Prasad was never sincere to his party’s social justice plank and as far as he was concerned justice always ended with prosperity of his family members, Mr. Yadav alleged.