In yet another blow to RJD chief Lalu Prasad, another close confidant and senior party leader Ram Nihora Yadav resigned from the party on Sunday.

“I have apprised the RJD leadership of my decision of resigning from the primary membership of the party. I don’t want to remain associated with a party which has deviated from the principles of social justice. Lalu had once championed the cause after former CM late Karpoori Thakur,” Ram Nihora Yadav, who was RJD’s state general secretary and spokesman, told PTI.

Prasad’s blue-eyed boy and RJD national general secretary Shyam Razak had on Saturday resigned from the party and the Bihar Assembly citing similar reasons.

Claiming that the RJD had been reduced to “a party of sycophants,” Yadav said he was feeling suffocated in the party under Lalu’s leadership. On whether he would switch over to the JD(U), Yadav said he is yet to take a decision.

Razak, however, is likely to join the ruling JD(U) soon in the presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, sources said. Lashing out at Prasad for RJD’s humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, after it won only four seats this year against last time’s tally of 22, Razak predicted that the party would be “finished soon”.

The RJD, in its turn, has termed Razak an “opportunist” and said that he had got much more from the party than what he deserved. “Razak got more than what he deserved to get in the party...The other party leaders were feeling humiliated due to Razak getting prominence in the party,” party spokesman Shakeel Ahmed Khan said on Sunday.

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