Chirag Paswan
Overnight coup in Lok Janshakti Party leaves Chirag Paswan isolated
New Delhi/IBNS: An overnight coup in Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), led by his uncle, has left him isolated at the top with five of six MPs writing to the Lok Sabha Speaker demanding to be treated as a separate group.
The revolt in LJP is led by Chirag Paswan's uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, the younger brother of Ram Vilas Paswan.
He has been elected as the new leader of the LJP parliamentary party.
Besides Chirag Paswan, the LJP has five MPs in the Lok Sabha.
All these five rebel MPs want a new leader to replace Paswan, the son of party founder Ram Vilas Paswan who died last year.
They will reportedly meet with Speaker Om Birla soon to formally ask for his removal as their leader.
Facing revolt, Chirag Paswan asked his uncle to make his mother the chief of the party.
Earlier in the day, following the turn of events, Chirag Paswan drove to his uncle's house for talks but stayed in his car. Paras did not come out to greet him either.
"There are six MPs in our party. It was the desire of five MPs to save our party. So I have not split the party, I have saved it. Chirag Paswan is my nephew as well as party's national president. I have no objections to him," Paras was quoted as saying by the NDTV channel.
"I am with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Nitish Kumar is a good leader and Vikas Purush (development man)," he added.
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