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Lalu loyalist-turned rebel Ram Kripal Yadav joins BJP

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New Delhi: Rebel RJD leader Ram Kripal Yadav Wednesday joined BJP and sang paeans for the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi while accusing his mentor Lalu Prasad of promoting his family instead of acting for social justice.

Yadav, who had been a close aide of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, joined BJP in the presence of party president Rajnath Singh and senior leaders from Bihar including Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Welcoming him into the party fold, Rajnath Singh said Yadav has been RJD’s secretary general for the last 17 years and had decided to support the BJP.

Expressing his gratitude to the BJP leadership for accepting him into the party, Yadav said he will work for the party not as a leader but as a worker, which he has been for the last 35 years of his political life.

Yadav, a former legislator and a Rajya Sabha MP, accused Lalu Prasad of “promoting” his family over his party workers, who he said, were feeling stifled. “RJD has moved away from its core values.

Lalu gave precedence to his family over party and cadres. I was in a dilemma on what to do for the last few days and then decided to quit the party and join BJP for the sake of giving social justice,” he said.

Ram Kripal Yadav is keen to contest from the Pataliputra seat on which the RJD has fielded Lalu’s daughter Misa Bharti. (PTI)

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