Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president, Chirag Paswan. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan on Sunday (September 29, 2024) said his party would contest Jharkhand Assembly polls and discussion was underway for all options including contesting the election in alliance or alone. Mr. … Read more
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) MP Chirag Paswan speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Winter Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi extending his wishes for the inauguration of the new Parliament building and … Read more
Day after claiming that PM Narendra Modi is doing 12 joint rallies with JDU because he has come under pressure from the Bihar chief minister, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Chirag Paswan, in another attack on Nitish Kumar, said he has stopped envisioning policies and become saturated. Chirag Paswan said that Nitish Kumar is anxious … Read more
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Chirag Paswan on Friday said that he is a blind follower of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Claiming that Bihar CM Nitish Kumar was creating pressure on the BJP leaders, including PM Modi, to speak against the LJP, Chirag Paswan said that he will continue to be loyal to the prime … Read more
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Chirag Paswan Thursday stepped up his attack on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, challenging him to contest the Bihar Assembly election 2020. Chirag Paswan questioned why Nitish Kumar has not contested any Bihar Assembly election after 2005 and took a swipe at him saying, the chief minister “does not have direct … Read more
Burdened with grief over his father’s death, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Chirag Paswan fell unconscious after lighting his father Ram Vilas Paswan’s pyre in Patna today. Ram Vilas Paswan, a veteran Dalit leader from Bihar and a Union minister died on Thursday in Delhi at the age of 74 after a prolonged heart ailment. … Read more
Union Minister, LJP patron and India’s tall Dalit leader Ram Vilas Paswan’s death came about three weeks before voting begins in his home state Bihar where son Chirag Paswan has decided to “go it alone”. Chirag Paswan said on October 4 that the LJP will contest the Bihar Election 2020 “on its own”, but the … Read more
A pall of gloom descended across the country following the demise of Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday. Many leaders expressed grief over the demise of the Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. The 74-year-old senior Dalit leader from Bihar died in a Delhi hospital on Thursday evening after being unwell … Read more
On March 26, 2016, Ram Vilas Paswan wrote on Twitter about how he became a politician. The tweet was in Hindi and its rough translation would go like this: “In 1969, I qualified civil services exam to become DSP [Deputy Superintendent of Police, in Bihar] and was also elected as an MLA. A friend asked, … Read more
Union minister and founder of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Ram Vilas Paswan passed away at the age of 74 at a hospital in New Delhi on Thursday. Ram Vilas Paswan had been suffering from a heart ailment for a long time and was last operated on Saturday. Being a veteran politician from Bihar, his … Read more