Pashupati Kumar Paras

In a strategic shift aimed at invigorating leadership, pashupati kumar paras, head of the Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party, has welcomed Prince Raj as the newly appointed national working president. This dynamic move reflects a commitment to nurturing youthful visionaries within the party, with plans to elevate Raj to a full-time national president position in just two months.

Union food processing industries minister pashupati kumar paras seems to be in no mood to reconcile with his nephew and Jamui MP Chirag Paswan, who is engaged in a bitter tussle of power to regain his status as the LJP supremo.

A day after the Election Commission (EC) directed both the factions not to use the LJP name and its election symbol, bungalow, in the byelection for Kusheshawar Asthan and Tarapur assembly seats, Hajipur MP pashupati kumar paras on Sunday said his nephew Chirag Pawan would not get a formidable candidate to contest the October 30 bypolls.

The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday allotted the name 'Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) with election symbol 'helicopter' to the Chirag Paswan faction of the Lok Janshakti Party.

Newly-appointed Union minister of food processing industry pashupati kumar paras has said he is the political successor of his late brother Ram Vilas Paswan. "I am the political successor of Ram Vilas Paswan. Chirag can be the heir of his properties as per Hindu Succession Law," pashupati kumar paras said on Thursday.

In his first public statement since his ouster as the leader of Lok Jan Shakti party in Lok Sabha, Chirag Paswan said he failed in keeping his party and family together. "I tried but failed to keep this party created by my father and my family. Party is like mother and mother should not be cheated. People are paramount in democracy. I thank the people who have faith in the party," wrote Paswan on Twitter.

Slighted first on September 24, 2019, when the then LJP national president Ram Vilas Paswan removed him from the post of the party’s state president and made him the Dalit Sena national chief, pashupati kumar paras took one year and nine months to finally effect coup in the party, observers feel.

Lok Janshakti Party MP pashupati kumar paras, who recently staged a political coup and deposed nephew Chirag Paswan as the party chief, was on Thursday declared elected, unopposed, the new national president of the outfit. Party sources said, "no other contender filed nomination papers till 3 pm and a formal announcement with regard to the election of the Hajipur MP will be made in the evening."

A day after Jamui MP Chirag Paswan wrote to the Election Commission staking claim for “bungalow” election symbol, his estranged uncle and Union minister pashupati kumar paras said the LJP and its election symbol belonged to his faction.

BJP state president Dr Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal on Tuesday said the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) is a part of the NDA, but left the association of Union minister pashupati kumar paras and his estranged nephew Chirag Paswan undefined, as the status of the party founded by late Ram Vilas Paswan is under dispute.

Lok Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan has contested Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's decision to name pashupati kumar paras as the leader of the party in the House, saying it is "contrary" to provisions of his organisation. In a letter written on Tuesday, Paswan also informed Birla of the party's decision to expel five MPs, who have joined hands against him.

A day after Union minister pashupati kumar paras’ allegation that he had received threat calls, his nephew and Jamui MP Chirag Paswan on Friday demanded a fair investigation into the matter. The threat calls were allegedly made on the personal cellphone of Paras three days after lubricants were thrown on him during a visit to his Lok Sabha constituency Hajipur.

Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP) chief pashupati kumar paras on Saturday said one should not read much into his nephew and LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan touching his feet and reiterated that he would contest from the Hajipur parliamentary seat come what may.

Union minister pashupati kumar paras on Monday charged his estranged nephew Chirag Paswan with trying to derive “political mileage” out of his recent eviction from the house allotted to the latter's late father Ram Vilas Paswan in New Delhi.

Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), one of the five allies of the NDA in Bihar, on Sunday revolted against the BJP-JD(U) combine’s decision to share all 24 vacant Bihar legislative council seats among only three allies. It also announced to contest all 24 seats on its own.

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan has returned to the BJP-led NDA after three years. A formal announcement in this regard was made by BJP national president JP Nadda on Monday ahead of the NDA allies' meeting in Delhi in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday.

Union minister and Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party chief pashupati kumar paras preferred to maintain a low profile while reacting to the allegations levelled against him by Reena Paswan, the wife of his elder brother and former Union minister late Ram Vilas Paswan.