Two senior RJD leaders criticised chief minister Nitish Kumar one after the other in separate news meets at the party office on Thursday.
Shivanand Tiwari, the newly appointed national vice-president of the party, was the first to slam Nitish over the Srijan scam.
Then Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, also a national vice-president, attacked the chief minister for the collapse of the Grand Alliance in Bihar.
Tiwari accused Nitish of covering up the Srijan scam, the value of which has reportedly crossed the Rs 1,000-crore mark, whereas former Union minister Raghuvansh took digs at Nitish for siding with the BJP.
Tiwari said without the backing of Nitish and Sushil Kumar Modi, the deputy chief minister who is also the finance minister, a scam of this proportion was not possible.
"The scam came to light in 2008 when Vipin Kumar was the Bhagalpur district magistrate. He had informed the state how government funds were being transferred to a non-financial bank throwing all rules to the wind. He had asked the government to suggest measures but no reply came from the government," Tiwari said, flanked by RJD state unit president Ram Chandra Purbey and party secretary general Mundrika Singh.
It was Tiwari's first visit to Patna after RJD chief Lalu Prasad appointed the former parliamentarian to the post of national vice-president of the party.
RJD supporters and leaders welcomed Tiwari with bouquets and shouted slogans in his support.
Quoting from an English daily Tiwari said: "According to the newspaper report, Bhagalpur senior superintendent of police Manoj Kumar had said that the matter came to light in 2008. Preliminary investigation proves that government money under different heads was directly deposited in Srijan in outright violation of banking norms. This was discontinued when the DM issued an order in 2008 to deposit government funds in nationalised banks. If the government was informed in 2008, why didn't it take any action? Nitish's claim that he exposed the scam after a cheque bounced is false."
He termed the Srijan scam bigger than the fodder swindle in Bihar.
Raghuvansh on the other hand recalled that JDU leaders used to call him a BJP agent and say that he was on the payrolls of the BJP.
"After Nitish betrayed the people's mandate it is clear who the BJP agent was and who was on the payrolls of the BJP," Raghuvansh said.
