Political Pulse

He was once Lalu Prasad, the former chief minister of Bihar,'s deputy. After that, they had a falling out, so she joined the United Janata Dal and beat him in a Lok Sabha election. The 79-year-old Ranjan Prasad Yadav is back in the RJD now. Ranjan, who referred to his return to the party as a "homecoming," joined the opposition party on Thursday in the presence of Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Kumar Jha. "The two of us had started fighting for social justice together in the early 1970s," he remarked after meeting Lalu. Not only are we fighting for social justice, but we are fighting to keep the Constitution intact.