Chirag to hold Bihar road show from July 5 on father’s birth anniversary
The Hindu
He blames Nitish for trying to engineer a split LJP
Locked in a tussle with his uncle over the control of the Lok Janshakti Party, Chirag Paswan on Sunday attended a national executive committee meeting in Delhi and said he would hold a road show across Bihar from July 5 on the occasion of his father and party’s founder Ram Vilas Paswan’s birth anniversary. Mr. Paswan blamed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for trying to engineer a split in the LJP for long but “was not successful”. “Like every year, the birth anniversary of founder of LJP and my father Ram Vilas Paswan will be organised with fanfare in the country and on this occasion I will take out an ‘Aashirwad Yatra’ [journey of blessings] on July 5 from Hajipur which will pass through all districts of Bihar in nearly two months before culminating in Patna with a call of party’s national council meeting. Thereafter, a mammoth rally will be held in Patna,” said Mr. Paswan after the national executive committee meeting of his group at his residence in Delhi. Mr. Paswan’s father Ram Vilas Paswan had represented Hajipur nine times in the Lok Sabha and currently his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras is the LJP MP from there. “The Bihar Chief Minister has been trying to make a split among Dalit voters’ unity for a long time. In this contest, first he made division into Dalit and Mahadalit and the LJP had opposed this policy of Mr. Kumar and him in the last Assembly election. It was because of the LJP’s opposition, the JD(U)’s seats were reduced to half in this election. And after this debacle, Mr. Kumar had decided to make a split in the LJP. It was under this plan, he tried to make split in our party by promising ministerial berth to a senior leader of the party but his plan was not successful,” said a release issued after the meeting. It said 66 members of the executive committee were present — 43 physically and 23 virtually — in the meeting.More Related News