Patna : Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan will contest the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, the Union Minister announced during a political rally in Saran district on Sunday. Chirag Paswan’s LJP contested 137 seats in the 2020 Bihar polls but failed to make an impact as it won just one seat- Matihani.
Chirag Paswan is a Lok Sabha MP and a Cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government under the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which also comprises Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP), among others.
Paswan won the Hajipur Lok Sabha seat of Bihar in the 2024 general elections by defeating RJD’s Shiv Chandra Ram by over 1,70,000 votes. During his address to the party workers and supporters in Saran, Paswan launched a scathing attack on the Mahagathbandhan of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress and their alliance partners, claiming that they were the ones who have always tried to violate the sanctity of the Constitution.
Paswan said that as long as he is alive, no one can threaten reservation in education and jobs for the underprivileged castes or the Constitution. I swear to my leader and my father, Ram Vilas Paswan, that as long as I am alive, no one can threaten reservation or the Constitution, he said. The Hajipur MP also said that the same Congress made changes to the Preamble and murdered the Constitution.
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