Chacha (uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras) and
Bhatija (nephew Chirag Paswan) slugfest may perhaps be music to Kumar s ears, whose proximity with Paras is well known. In 2017, Paras was inducted into Nitish s cabinet when he was not even an MLA. Later he was made an MLC by Nitish Kumar. In 2019, Paras became an MP.
Sources say that the Paras-led group in the party will back JDU.
A simmering broil
The power tussle in LJP began in 2014 when Chirag had become BJP s Parliamentary Board Chairman. The tussle kept simmering but the senior Paswan (Ram Vilas Paswan kept it under wraps and made his son party chief in November 2019 against the wish of his brother. Union Minister Paswan s death in October 2020 took away that command structure in the party. The massive debacle of LJP in Bihar polls after its decision to go solo and target Nitish Kumar, proved the proverbial last nail in its coffin adage.
Patna: The BJP on Friday sacked its recalcitrant Bihar MLC Tunnaji Pandey whose utterances against CM Nitish Kumar were putting a strain on the tenuous relations between the two alliance partners. Pan