Rebel LJP group elects Paras as party president

The insurgent group of the Lok Janshakti Party on Thursday elected Pashupati Kumar Paras unopposed as the brand new party president. After his election, Mr. Paras, who days earlier than had staged a coup within the party, informed mediapersons, “I was elected according to the party’s constitution and democratic process. The party has thrust a big responsibility on me and I’ll take forward the party.”

The LJP’s nationwide govt committee assembly was held on the residence of senior party chief Suraj Bhan Singh in Patna. Mr. Singh later introduced that no different nomination had been filed in opposition to Mr. Paras.

After the coup within the party, the insurgent LJP group had elected Mr. Singh, a party chief and former MP from Munger, as its working president.

When requested why he and different party leaders needed to break free from his nephew Chirag Paswan, the newly elected president stated, “If nephew becomes an autocrat, what can an uncle do?”

“I’ve been elected under the party’s constitution, which says that every three years, election for the party president will take place. No one can be party president for life in a democratic set up,” stated the MP from Hajipur.

Mr. Paras additionally urged partymen who had give up beforehand to “come back to fulfil dream of party’s founder leader Ram Vilas Paswan”. He asserted that there was no “internal bickering” within the LJP and the party would “take care of people coming from every section of the society”.

The LJP is presently an ally of National Democratic Alliance on the Centre.

Earlier, Mr. Chirag Paswan was faraway from the submit of LJP president after an emergency assembly of party’s nationwide working committee.

Out of whole of six LJP MPs, 5 rebelled in opposition to Mr. Paswan.

Mr Paswan, nevertheless, on Wednesday nominated party chief and former MLA Raju Tiwari as the LJP State president.