In Show Of Strength After Coup, Chirag Paswan To Lead Bihar Roadshow

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.