Chirag Paswan had been in talks with the BJP for finalising his celebration’s share of Lok Sabha seats in Bihar for 2024.
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan has determined to return to the NDA, BJP chief J P Nadda introduced on Monday, hours after Paswan met Union Home Minister Amit Shah, a day earlier than the essential meeting of the ruling coalition.
“I met Chirag Paswanji in Delhi. He has decided to join the NDA alliance under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. I welcome him to the NDA family,” Nadda stated on Twitter and posted images of his meeting with Paswan.
Paswan had been in talks with the BJP for finalising his celebration’s share of Lok Sabha seats in Bihar for 2024 and the meeting is being seen as a part of that train. “Had a positive discussion with the country’s Home Minister respected Shri Amit Shah in New Delhi on issues related to the alliance,” Paswan stated in a tweet after meeting Shah.
श्री @iChiragPaswan जी से दिल्ली में भेंट हुई। उन्होंने माननीय प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi जी के नेतृत्व वाले NDA गठबंधन में शामिल होने का निर्णय लिया है। मैं उनका NDA परिवार में स्वागत करता हूँ। pic.twitter.com/vwU67B6w6H
— Jagat Prakash Nadda (@JPNadda) July 17, 2023
Later, Shah stated in a tweet that he and Paswan had an in depth dialogue about Bihar politics. Union minister Nityanand Rai, a senior BJP chief from Bihar, had earlier met Paswan twice. The undivided LJP beneath late stalwart Dalit chief Ram Vilas Paswan, Chirag’s father, had contested six Lok Sabha seats in 2019 and in addition acquired a Rajya Sabha seat as a part of its seat-sharing take care of the BJP.
The younger chief needs the BJP to stick to the identical association regardless of a division in his celebration, with one other faction, Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party, headed by his uncle and Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras already part of the ruling alliance.
Chirag Paswan has emphasised on readability from the BJP about his share of Lok Sabha and in addition meeting seats in Bihar earlier than formalising their alliance, sources in the LJP (R) stated. He additionally needs the BJP to concede to him the Hajipur Lok Sabha seat, a pocket borough of his father for many years however presently represented by Paras in Parliament. His uncle has additionally staked declare to the seat, asserting that he and never Chirag is the late chief’s political inheritor.
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The BJP has additionally been working to deliver a few rapprochement between the 2 sides, with Rai meeting the Union minister as nicely. Even although Paras acquired the assist of all different 4 MPs of the celebration apart from Paswan, his nephew is seen to have largely succeeded in inheriting the assist of the vote financial institution loyal to his father.
Since the break up with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United), the BJP has been eager to deliver Paswan again to its facet as it really works to bolster its energy in the politically essential state. Paswan had walked out of the NDA in the course of the 2020 meeting polls in the state due to his opposition to Kumar, then a BJP ally. He has, nevertheless, been supportive of the BJP on key points.
