Bihar Lok Sabha Elections: Chirag Paswan’s LJP To Announce Candidates ‘Immediately After Holi’

Chirag Paswan asserted that his Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) is working to ensure the BJP-led NDA wins all 40 seats in Bihar Lok Sabha Elections.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Chirag Paswan, who recently joined hands with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), said his Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) will announce its candidates for the upcoming Bihar Lok Sabha Elections, “immediately after holi“.

“We will announce all our candidates in a few days… immediately after Holi,” Chirag Paswan, son of late Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, said Sunday. However, Chirag evaded a direct reply to the question of whether he would accommodate Veena Devi and Mehboob Ali Kaiser, sitting MPs from Vaishali and Khagaria, respectively.

Paswan’s LJP has got five of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, asserted he was “ready for any challenge” that came from his estranged uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras.

Vaishali and Khagaria, both seats contested by Chirag’s late father in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, have been assigned to the LJP (Ram Vilas) this time by its ally NDA.

‘Ready to face any challenge’

Notably, the MPs had rallied behind Paras when he split the LJP in 2021, but of late have been repenting that decision and swearing their loyalty towards the late party founder’s son.

Asked about the threat from his estranged uncle, Paswan said he was “ready to face any type of challenge”. The young leader has made it clear that that he will be shifting base from Jamui to Hajipur, the seat currently held by Paras, but represented by his late father several times.

Paras, who has resigned from his Union cabinet berth, stopping short of quitting the NDA, but vowed to field loyalists in all seats where his nephew’s candidates were in the fray.

Will ensure NDA wins all 40 seats in Bihar

Chirag Paswan asserted that his party will ensure the NDA wins all 40 seats in Bihar.

“We will work to ensure the victory of the NDA in all 40 seats in Bihar. That is the common aim of all constituents – BJP, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha, ex-Union minister Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Morcha and my party,” Paswan said.

While BJP and JD(U) have declared candidates for 17 and 16 seats they are, respectively, fighting, Manjhi’s party has announced his candidature from Gaya.

Upendra Kushwaha is likely to enter the fray from Karakat.

(With PTI inputs)