‘Won’t Leave Jamui,’ says Chirag Paswan

Chirag Paswan, the leader of the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), said on Sunday that he will run for re-election from Jamui, the Lok Sabha constituency he now holds for a second straight term.

In response to rumors that he was preparing to relocate to Hajipur, which his late father Ram Vilas Paswan fostered over a number of decades, Chirag issued a declaration to that effect in his constituency.

“I wouldn’t make many political comments, such as who will run from where. However, I want to reassure the residents of Jamui that I am dedicated to making their district one of Bihar’s most developed. The 40-year-old leader said, “I arrived here as a child and will remain here until I get old. Chirag and his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, who presently represents Hajipur and became a Union minister after leaving the LJP two years ago, have been at odds.

The organization led by Chirag is known as the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), whilst the one led by Paras has become known as the Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party.

Chirag has recently made the assertion that his late father, who decided to run for Rajya Sabha in 2019, intended him to run for the final Lok Sabha seat from Hajipur. Even as an unmoved Chirag, whom his uncle won’t accept as a member of the BJP-led NDA, has been claiming that “a candidate of Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) will contest from Hajipur in 2024,” Paras has vehemently refuted this assertion.