Lalu aide Ranjan Yadav joins BJP

Former MP Ranjan Yadav, a trusted aide of Lalu Prasad in 1990s, on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and lashed out at the RJD supremo for presiding over ‘jungle raj’ in Bihar during his party's 15 years' rule. Women never felt safe on the streets as utter lawlessness prevailed in Bihar during RJD’s 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 and other BJP leaders at the party office in Patna. The 70 year-old, who had represented RJD for two terms in Rajya Sabha (1990-2002), besides being a member of Lok Sabha between 2009-2014 from Patliputra on JD(U) ticket, spewed venom on Prasad saying that there was no development in Bihar during the RJD rule. Agencies