Chirag Paswan to skip NDA meeting
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Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Chirag Paswan is among the many leaders invited to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) meeting on Saturday to focus on the ruling bloc’s agenda for the Budget session of Parliament, get together sources mentioned.
However, Mr. Paswan is not going to be attending the meeting due to well being causes, they mentioned, including that he additionally skipped the all-party meet.
The invite to Mr. Paswan from Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi to the meeting of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies assumes significance because it comes within the backdrop of the LJP strolling out of the NDA in Bihar due to its opposition to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and contesting the state Assembly polls by itself.
Though the LJP might win just one seat within the Bihar polls, it inflicted severe harm on the JD(U), the tally of which fell to 43 from 71, triggering a backlash from Kumar’s get together, with a few of its leaders questioning if Paswan might nonetheless be within the NDA on the Centre.
A vocal supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr. Paswan has maintained that he stays an ally of the BJP on the Centre.
Senior leaders of the saffron get together had additionally criticised him for fielding candidates towards the JD(U) within the Bihar polls.
The invite to Mr. Paswan for the NDA meeting signifies that the BJP, which has misplaced just a few key allies, continues to see the LJP, which was based by towering Dalit chief Ram Vilas Paswan, as a associate.
