Chirag Paswan reaches out to PM Modi amid LJP feud, says 'saddened by BJP's silence'

After being ousted as chief of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), which was founded by his father, Chirag Paswan on Wednesday attempted to reach out to the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The LJP MP said that it is not right if Ram remains silent when Hanuman is being killed. This statement by Chirag Paswan comes after, he during Bihar Assembly elections has described himself as the 'Hanuman' of the Prime Minister. 

Chirag Paswan said, "From the time of 'Satyug' till today, it was seen in Ramayana that Hanuman supported Lord Rama at every step. Hanuman walked with Lord Ram at every step and in the same way, at every step his party LJP has stood with PM Modi on every small and big decision."

Chirag Paswan calls upon PM Modi & BJP

Paswan said that today when the hour of crisis has come upon the LJP, it is expected that the saffron party would intervene and try to resolve the matter somehow. "But the silence of the BJP has certainly made me sad," he added. Remarking that despite the current situation, he has full faith in PM Modi, the LJP MP said that by taking the situation under control, the Prime Minister will definitely intervene to sort out this political issue.

Chirag Paswan said that he expected the BJP to intervene and sort out the turf war with his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras to retain control of the LJP. Meanwhile, sources on Sunday informed that he has also written to the Election Commission (EC) seeking rights on the party symbol. This comes after the LJP faction led by Pashupati Kumar Paras dissolved the national, state executives and committees of different cells. Paswan also hit out at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for denying that he had a role in engineering the split of the LJP.

The LJP MP had said, "Everyone knows. This is an open secret. People know who is behind it. This is not the first time that the CM tried to create a split in our party. It has been his style of functioning. In 2005, when 29 of our MLAs had won, Nitish Kumar had broken our party. He did the same thing of breaking one of our MLAs who won the assembly election in 2020. It has been their tradition to break, Then with what face is he saying that he does not have a role."

The junior Paswan further said that if Kumar needed to be reminded of his strength, then the CM should just ask his own party leaders who had lost elections because of LJP. Asked about the cause for the feud in the LJP, Chirag said that he made the only mistake of trusted his own family members. "The only mistake I made was that I trusted my loved ones more following my father's values. When my own people betrayed, then there is no reason I should point fingers at someone else. Yes, I have probably made a mistake somewhere, I trusted my family members too much," he added. 

Earlier on June 13, Paras, the younger brother of LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan was recognised as the leader of LJP in Lok Sabha in place of Chirag Paswan after the five of six-party MPs gave a letter in his support. The Speaker accepted Paras as the floor leader of the LJP in the lower house. In a revised list of floor leaders of parties on Monday, Paras was listed as the Lok Sabha LJP leader. The LJP was formed by former Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan in 2000. 

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