Chirag downplays BJP fielding Sushil Modi for seat won by Ram Vilas Paswan
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The LJP founder had received elected from the seat final 12 months after it fell vacant following his cupboard colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad’s election to the Lok Sabha.
Cold-shouldered by the BJP within the by-election to a Rajya Sabha seat in Bihar, LJP president Chirag Paswan stated on Saturday that it belonged to the saffron get together and it was free to take a choice about whom to subject.
The seat had fallen vacant following the loss of life of Chirag Paswan’s father and Lok Janshakti Party founder Ram Vilas Paswan. The BJP has nominated former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi for the seat.
Sushil Modi is more likely to win uncontested except the opposition Grand Alliance fields a candidate to problem him.
In that occasion, the polling will happen on December 14.
A Union Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan had received elected from the seat final 12 months after it fell vacant following his cupboard colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad’s election to the Lok Sabha from Patna Sahib.
“The seat belonged to the BJP and it is for the party to decide which candidate from which party to field in the by-election,” the 37-year-old chief instructed reporters at a operate held to have fun his get together’s twentieth basis day.
Chastened by the drubbing within the current Bihar elections, Chirag Paswan requested the get together rank and file to gear up for the following Assembly polls which may happen “any time“.
He reiterated it in a letter addressed to LJP workers and shared with the media.
Responding to questions, Mr. Paswan maintained that he saw “fresh elections taking place any time in Bihar, given the way the new government is functioning“.
In a written message to party workers, Mr. Paswan defended his decision to go solo in the Assembly polls, saying, “We had to make a choice between accepting the NDA’s offer of only 15 seats despite being a party with six members in the Lok Sabha and one in the Rajya Sabha, or engage in a friendly fight to preserve our honour“.
In the one-page letter, Mr. Paswan refrained from making any remark against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the JD(U) boss whom he had targeted all through the elections and repeatedly accused of being unfair and brusque towards his late father while he was alive.
The letter contained no reference to the BJP or Prime Minister Narendra Modi to whom Paswan has proclaimed loyalty.
The Jamui MP also deplored the heated exchanges between the Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav on the floor of the Assembly on Friday and said both shared the blame for the unsavoury turn of events.
“I would not like to take sides in this matter. From both sides many personal attacks were made. I do not think the discourse in Bihar Assembly has ever touched such depths,” Mr. Paswan stated.
The LJP chief, underneath whose stewardship the get together fought greater than half of the seats within the 243-strong Assembly however won just one, tried to perk up his supporters and requested them to give attention to the brilliant facet.
“We could win only two seats in the previous Assembly elections even though we had contested as part of the NDA.
This time, we were alone, without an army of star campaigners to canvass in our favour. But we secured 28 lakh votes and now our party is being talked about across the State,” Mr. Paswan stated in his letter.
“It was the dream of the LJP founder, my late father, to help the party come of its own. We have taken a step in that direction. Let’s keep marching,” Mr. Paswan, who took over the get together mantle from Paswan Sr. a 12 months in the past, added.
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