Tag: Pashupati Kumar Paras

  • Chirag’s rift with uncle widens as he returns to NDA

    Express News Service

    PATNA:  Lok Janshakti Party (LJP-Ram Vilas) chief and MP Chirag Paswan’s variations along with his uncle and union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras have apparently elevated with the previous returning to the NDA. Since there are not any indicators of a thaw between Chirag and Paras, BJP appears to be in a repair with each leaders staking claiming to the Paswan household’s conventional Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency within the state.
    NDA has acquired a lift forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha election after Chirag joined the unit, which is believed to have good assist from round six per cent of Paswan voters in Bihar.

    Soon after attending the NDA allies assembly in New Delhi on Tuesday, Chirag stated that BJP had thought-about all his issues positively and claimed that NDA would win all of the 40 seats in Bihar within the 2024 Lok Sabha election. He stated that he had no drawback with BJP however had snapped ties with the NDA in 2020 as Bihar chief minister and JD (U) chief Nitish Kumar was within the alliance at the moment. He stated that his social gathering was additionally against Nitish’s insurance policies.

    Chirag who represents Jamui Lok Sabha constituency stated that his father and LJP supremo Ram Vilas Paswan had determined to stop NDA after Nitish had returned in 2017. At the time, PM Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah had advised his father that his social gathering’s alliance was with BJP and never JD (U). Meanwhile, Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP), one other faction of LJP led by Kumar Paras, has reacted sharply to Chirag returning to the NDA fold. He, nevertheless, stated that everyone had the appropriate to contest the election from whichever seat he wished. 

    PATNA:  Lok Janshakti Party (LJP-Ram Vilas) chief and MP Chirag Paswan’s variations along with his uncle and union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras have apparently elevated with the previous returning to the NDA. Since there are not any indicators of a thaw between Chirag and Paras, BJP appears to be in a repair with each leaders staking claiming to the Paswan household’s conventional Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency within the state.
    NDA has acquired a lift forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha election after Chirag joined the unit, which is believed to have good assist from round six per cent of Paswan voters in Bihar.

    Soon after attending the NDA allies assembly in New Delhi on Tuesday, Chirag stated that BJP had thought-about all his issues positively and claimed that NDA would win all of the 40 seats in Bihar within the 2024 Lok Sabha election. He stated that he had no drawback with BJP however had snapped ties with the NDA in 2020 as Bihar chief minister and JD (U) chief Nitish Kumar was within the alliance at the moment. He stated that his social gathering was additionally against Nitish’s insurance policies.

    Chirag who represents Jamui Lok Sabha constituency stated that his father and LJP supremo Ram Vilas Paswan had determined to stop NDA after Nitish had returned in 2017. At the time, PM Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah had advised his father that his social gathering’s alliance was with BJP and never JD (U). Meanwhile, Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP), one other faction of LJP led by Kumar Paras, has reacted sharply to Chirag returning to the NDA fold. He, nevertheless, stated that everyone had the appropriate to contest the election from whichever seat he wished. googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

  • Evicted from late father’s Delhi home, Chirag Paswan sniffs `conspiracy’

    By PTI

    PATNA: Driven out of the ministerial bungalow within the nationwide capital which had turn out to be synonymous together with his late father, Chirag Paswan on Saturday performed the sufferer card, sniffing out a conspiracy angle.

    Paswan alleged {that a} day previous to his unceremonious eviction earlier this week, he was assured by “a top Union minister” that he might keep on, and questioned whether or not Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had a job to play in his “humiliation”.

    Paswan additionally attacked his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, who earned a cabinet berth after splitting the Lok Janshakti Party, for remaining “a mute spectator to the insult to the memory” of late Ram Vilas Paswan.

    “I have been rendered homeless. My father was an honest man and hence never cared to build a house in Delhi despite a political career spanning across five decades”, he mentioned.

    “I had made up my mind to vacate 12, Janpath. I am intrigued that on the night prior to the mayhem by security forces, I was summoned by a top minister in the Union cabinet who told me I could stay on and even dialed up a colleague to say let’s not be harsh on Chirag. He is the future of Bihar”, claimed Paswan.

    “It will suffice to say right now that the minister was not among the less fancied ones. He is among the top five and is understood to have a say in decision making. I will reveal his name if the situation demands”, alleged the Jamui MP, who headed the get together based by his father till the riot by his uncle.

    Training his weapons at Nitish Kumar whom he has repeatedly accused of getting been disrespectful in the direction of his father, Paswan questioned whether or not the “pressure” on the NDA authorities by the JD(U) chief was “so great as to necessitate our humiliating eviction”.

    “Ram Vilas Paswan was the second Ambedkar. But while carrying out the eviction drive, the men in uniform stepped on his bed with boots on, trampled on his pictures, misbehaved with our helpers”, alleged Paswan.

    “The worst half is, my uncle who owes his political standing to the late chief, remained a mute spectator and most popular to look the opposite manner slightly than danger his personal place by revolting.

    Now, I’m left with the folks of Bihar by the use of a household”, said Paswan who famously called himself the “Hanuman” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, however appears to have been deemed too scorching to deal with.

  • RJD will have a good time Dalit messiah Ram Vilas Ji’s beginning anniversary: Tejashwi Yadav

    Amid indicators of chill in LJP chief Chirag Paswan’s ties with the BJP-led NDA, RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday reached out to him for aligning with the Opposition, saying he can carry ahead his father Ram Vilas Paswan’s legacy solely by becoming a member of the “existential fight” in opposition to RSS ideologue M S Golwalkar’s ideas.
    With Chirag going public together with his disappointment with the BJP’s silence over his bitter feud together with his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras for management of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), Tejashwi Yadav alleged that the BJP has “disposed of” and “abandoned” most of its previous allies after coming to energy and gaining most from them.
    In an interview with PTI, Yadav mentioned his get together has all the time stood by Ram Vilas Paswan and recounted that when the LJP didn’t actually have a single MLA and Paswan misplaced the election in 2009, it was Lalu Prasad Yadav who despatched him to Rajya Sabha from the Rashtriya Janata Dal quota.
    Has anyone executed or sacrificed a lot for every other chief or get together within the nation, he requested.

    “Our party has decided to celebrate Dalit messiah, Ram Vilas Ji’s birth anniversary to commemorate his contribution to the state, I think this itself is self-explanatory,” Yadav mentioned.

    Significantly, Chirag has additionally introduced an “aashirvaad yatra” from July 5, the beginning anniversary of his father and get together founder Ram Vilas Paswan, from Hajipur in Bihar.
    Asked about his name final week urging Chirag to give up the NDA, Yadav mentioned the nation is at a juncture the place pro-Constitution, pro-democracy, pro-farmers and pro-people forces are on one aspect and people antithetical to this ideology are on the opposite aspect.
    “Late Ram Vilas Paswan Ji was a socialist and a firm believer in the idea of social justice throughout his life. He fought caste supremacy, poverty and inequality during his political journey,” the 31-year-old chief mentioned.
    “The real tribute to him would be carrying forward his values and legacy and that is possible only when Chirag ji joins this existential fight against Golwalkar’s ‘bunch of thoughts’,” the previous Bihar deputy chief minister mentioned, in a play on the title of one in all RSS ideologue Golwalkar’s books.
    On Chirag’s remarks in an obvious reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that it was not proper for ‘Ram’ to stay silent when ‘Hanuman’ is being killed, Yadav alleged that the BJP “lures” events and leaders by promising them “the moon but the moment their ‘system’ realises they are no longer of utility, they are dumped in a similar manner as a fly is thrown out of milk”.

    Asked in regards to the political tussle between the LJP factions of Chirag and his paternal uncle Paras, the RJD chief threw his weight behind Chirag and took a dig at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying those that have engineered this break up had been vengeful in opposition to Chirag Paswan as he fought in opposition to them in final meeting elections.
    “Late Ram Vilas Ji made Chirag Ji his heir apparent by appointing him as the party’s national president and the parliamentary leader in Lok Sabha and it is up to him now as to how he carries forward his father’s legacy,” Yadav mentioned.
    Those who’re questioning him now, why they didn’t accomplish that when he was made nationwide president of LJP, he mentioned in an obvious reference to Paras.
    On Chirag holding the JD(U) accountable for the turmoil within the LJP, the Leader of Opposition within the Bihar Assembly mentioned Chirag has made it fairly clear by means of his letters that this was staged and the “perpetrators are known to everyone now”.
    “Those who worked to split the party (LJP) way back in 2005 and 2010 have in a sinister manner planned this as well. Nitish ji has a track record of living on borrowed mandate and has always played his game with support of borrowed players,” Yadav mentioned in a scathing assault on the chief minister. Nitish Kumar has “spared none and betrayed everyone”, he alleged.

    Last week additionally, Yadav had reached out to Chirag, saying the LJP chief should rethink his continuance within the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
    A tussle has been on inside the LJP after Chirag’s uncle Paras was elected because the get together’s chief in Lok Sabha by the 5 of get together’s six MPs instead of Chirag.
    Both the factions have now moved to manage the get together and undertaking their group as the actual LJP, based by Chirag’s father Ram Vilas Paswan.

    While the wing led by Chirag Paswan has expelled the 5 MPs from the get together, the rival group has eliminated him as its president.
    A gathering of the LJP nationwide govt final Sunday endorsed Chirag’s management and hit out on the faction headed by his paternal uncle for working in opposition to the get together’s structure.