New Delhi : Ram Vilas Paswan minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet and the founder of the Lok Janshakti Party died on Thursday at a Delhi hospital where he was recuperating from heart surgery. The 74-year-old was undergoing treatment at the hospital, and had to undergo surgery o Saturday “due to the situation that had […]
New Delhi : Irked by the Supreme Court observations on reservation not being a fundamental right, Dalit MPs across party lines met at Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan’s residence recently and favoured the creation of an Indian Judicial Service (IJS) with reservation. Speaking to The Indian Express, Paswan said: “All the MPs who attended […]
New Delhi: Abdul Khaliq, a long-time confidant of Ram Vilas Paswan and the Lok Jan Shakti Party’s general secretary, broke down and cried when, at a meeting on Wednesday, the party took the final call on aligning with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar. Zakir Hussain Khan, the LJP’s only MLA, has already quit the […]
New Delhi: Coming full circle, Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP, which left NDA in 2002, is all set to align with BJP in Bihar for Lok Sabha polls, giving a jolt to Congress’ plans to have a “secular” alliance with LJP and RJD. The alliance between BJP and LJP is likely to be announced in a […]
New Delhi: Congress today termed as “purely speculative” reports that LJP could ally with BJP for the Lok Sabha polls, noting that Ram Vilas Paswan was the first one to quit the NDA on the issue of Gujarat riots. “If at all there is anything that is playing out in the public space, my instant […]
