Ram Vilas Paswan’s death anniversary falls on October 8, but Chirag Paswan has decided to observe it on September 12.
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Railway minister allotted Paswan’s bungalow; Pashupati gets Sharad Yadav’s house
while the official accommodation of former MP Sharad Yadav has been allotted to Union Food Processing Industries Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras, officials said on Monday.
Ram Vilas Paswan, Tarun Gogoi, Keshubhai Patel conferred with Padma Bhushan posthumously
The government also conferred three-time Assam Chief Minister and veteran Congress leader Tarun Gogoi with Padma Bhushan posthumously.
Nitish Kumar deliberately insulted my father: Chirag Paswan’s letter to Nadda
Chirag further alleged that the announcement of Ram Vilas Paswan’s candidacy was done by none other than Amit Shah in the presence of Nitish Kumar.
Ram Vilas Paswan’s death casts pall of gloom in Bihar
Paswan’s demise — exactly 20 days before Bihar goes to polls, is also expected to impact the election prospects of the LJP, and the overall dynamics as well as outcome of the three-phased polls in the eastern state that kicks off on October 28.
Obituary: Paswan, record breaker of electoral politics, was a class apart
Paswan spent the entire duration of the national Emergency in the mid-1970s in jail. He joined the Janata Party after the Emergency was lifted.
LJP readies for Bihar elections, forms 7-member committee
The LJP has started its election preparations, and according to party sources, has identified 119 seats where both the BJP and the JDU are weak. The party has started its preparations on these seats.
Tap water undrinkable in Delhi, 13 state capitals: Paswan
The only metropolitan city where people can drink tap water safely is Mumbai as all its samples complied with Indian standards, the minister said.
Ram Vilas Paswan elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha
Paswan was declared elected after the deadline for the withdrawal of nomination papers ended at 3 p.m. on Friday in the absence of any other candidate.
Lok Sabha 2019: “Vote transfer Victory” for Modi-Nitish as NDA decimates Mahagathbandhan in Bihar
Bihar emerged as one of the largest states where a rainbow alliance of opposition parties was taking on the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party.
Lok Sabha Polls 2019: NDA in Bihar set to take on Mahagathbandhan, but what are its prospects?
Will the NDA survive the litmus test of 2019?
India is safe in the hands of Modi: Ram Vilas Paswan
Patna: Bharatiya Janata Party ally Lok Janshakti Party chief and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday said that the country is fully safe in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as was reflected in the air strikes against the biggest training camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) at Balakot[Read More…]
Bihar: Makar Sankranti feast in NDA camp; RJD gives dahi-chura a miss for second consecutive year
In Bihar, it is the season of politics over ‘dahi-chura’. The feast of Makar Sankranti with dahi-chura (curd and flattened rice) and Tilkut which is a traditional festival in Bihar is all set to be celebrated by the state’s political fraternity. Janata Dal (United) state president Bashishtha Narain Singh is[Read More…]
Bihar politics heats up as LJP accuses RJD to be anti-upper caste
With the clear passage of ‘The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Amendment) Bill 2019’ in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha the blame game is on rise in Bihar. Applauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi for this decision, Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) has accused the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) as a party[Read More…]
LJP welcomes quota for economically backward upper castes
New Delhi: The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) on Tuesday welcomed the government’s decision to approve 10 per cent reservation for economically backward people in the general category in jobs and educational institutions. Chirag Paswan, MP and Chairman of LJP Parliamentary Board, said his party was thankful to the NDA government[Read More…]
Bihar: LJP supremo Ram Vilas Paswan likely to enter Rajya Sabha from Assam
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan who is known to sense political weather is gearing up for upcoming Lok Sabha polls. In Bihar, the LJP is ready to fight on 6 Lok Sabha seats with an additional benefit of 1 Rajya Sabha berth from BJP’s quota. In June 2019,[Read More…]
NDA seat sharing in Bihar: What is LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan’s ‘Makar Sankranti’ jinx?
New Delhi: The discontent over seat sharing issue in Bihar among National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners doesn’t appear to end soon. Days after Rashtriya Lok Samata Party Upendra Kuhwaha announced his withdrawal of support from NDA, now Lok Janshakti Party’s (LJP) leader and Jamui MP Chirag Paswan has warned the[Read More…]
Don’t underestimate LJP, Ramvilas second Ambedkar of Country: Pashupati Paras
Patna: Loktantrik Janata Party (LJP) MLA and Bihar government Minister for Animal and Fish Resources Pashupati Kumar Paras claim that Ramvilas Paswan is the second Ambedkar of the country. He said that LJP is not a small party, those thinking it as a small party are underestimating the potential. Interacting[Read More…]
Bihar: Political parties trying hard to woo upper caste voters in their favour
The 2019 general election is nearing and all the political parties in Bihar are busy in targetting their vote banks and started looking for an alternate possible political alliance. This time, these parties are trying to woo the upper caste vote bank keeping in sight the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.[Read More…]
Family feud in LJP: Anil Sadhu to fight against father-in-law Ram Vilas Paswan
In a not so favouring event for Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan, his own family members have announced to stand against Paswan in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Paswan’s son-in-law Anil Sadhu had joined Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal during the last elections in Bihar. Now he[Read More…]
SC/ST Act: Delayed Govt response to Dalit’s Bharat Bandh call
As politicos, and among them mainly the Government, took over four-and-half months time to pass the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in the Lok Sabha after the Supreme Court had ruled to change some of its provisions millions of Dalits and their organisations spread across the[Read More…]
Congress welcomes Ram Vilas Paswan’s move, says Shaktisinh Gohil
New Delhi: As Union minister, Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP turned up the heat on Modi government over the appointment of A.K. Goel as NGT chairman and demanded his removal by August 9, the Congress while welcoming his move said he can’t stay silent now as he has to do the[Read More…]
Nitish proposes new, impossible seat sharing formula to BJP
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar seems to have proposed an impossible formula for BJP-JDU alliance in Bihar. According to sources, the formula was proposed to the BJP President Amit Shah during his visit to Patna last week. As per the seat sharing formula being proposed by the Bihar Chief Minister, BJP[Read More…]
LJP and RLSP will join ‘Mahagathbandhan’ in Bihar, says Raghuvansh Prasad Singh
Senior RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has given a statement about Ram Vilas Paswan and Upendra Kushwaha. LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan and RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha are going to join the alliance soon. He even said that seats are being discussed and soon, Ram Vilas Paswan and Upendra Kushwaha[Read More…]
Ram Vilas Paswan shown black flags in his constituency
Patna: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan was on Thursday shown black flags by protesters in his parliamentary constituency Hajipur in Bihar, police said. Over two dozen protesters belonging to the Sanyukt Sangharsh Morcha waved black flags at the convoy of the Lok Janshakti Party supremo near a hotel in Hajipur,[Read More…]