‘Miss you Papa’: Chirag shares childhood pic with Ram Vilas Paswan as he announces father’s demise

A Dalit leader from Bihar, Paswan was an eight-time Lok Sabha MP who served as a Union Minister under five prime ministers. His party has been a member of all national coalitions. Whoever LJP was in alliance with, Paswan took pride in introducing himself as a socialist and secular politician.

His death comes weeks before Bihar goes to Assembly polls, in which the LJP, under Chirag Paswan’s leadership, is fighting separately this time — and not as part of the ruling JD(U)-BJP alliance.

However, the party, while attacking Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, has taken pains to reiterate that its alliance with the BJP at the Centre was “firm”, that its MLAs would back the BJP in a post-poll scenario, and that the split for the Bihar polls was due to “ideological differences” with the JD(U).

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