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Paswan open to Muslim candidate for deputy chief ministership
Patna, Aug 29 (PTI): Under attack from opposition for projecting his brother and state LJP president Pashupati Kumar Paras as candidate for deputy chief ministership, LJP supremo Ram Vilas Paswan has said, he was open to appointment of a suitable candidate from the Muslim community to hold the post in the event of the RJD-LJP [...]
Paswan seeks ban on RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal
Patna, Aug 29(TNN): Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday demanded immediate ban on RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal following remarks of Union home minister P Chidambaram about the saffron terror threat. Paswan urged PM Manmohan Singh to ban these organisations as they were involved in several incidents of violence and explosions [...]
Nitish, Lalu, Paswan rakhis a hit in Bihar
Patna, Aug 23(IANS): They have a tough electoral contest ahead, but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his rivals Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan are also jostling for supremacy in Bihar’s rakhi markets. A day ahead of the festival, rakhis named after the three were doing brisk business Monday with reports that Nitish Kumar had [...]
RJD to project Lalu as chief ministerial candidate
Patna, Aug 16(IANS): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is set to project Lalu Prasad as its chief ministerial candidate for the forthcoming Bihar Assembly polls, party sources said on Monday. A senior RJD leader told IANS here that pressure is increasing within the party to project Mr. Prasad as its nominee for the top post. [...]
No tieup in Bihar: Cong
Aug 14 (The Asian Age): The Congress would stick to its original plan of “going solo” in Bihar as the party on Friday scotched all rumours of it having truck with any party, including the Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP. Reiterating the party stand, AICC general secretary in-charge of Bihar Mukul Wasnik said, “We are going [...]
Paswan, RJD walk out, Rajya Sabha adjourned for 10 minutes
Aug 02 (IANS): The Rajya Sabha was briefly adjourned for 10 minutes pm on Monday following protests by the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) over an audit report pointing to graft in providing relief to the victims of the 2007 floods in Bihar. Raising the issue during zero hour, LJP [...]
Congress hopes Rahul’s ‘medicine’ will revive party in Bihar
July 27 (PTI): After its revival in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress is hoping that Rahul Gandhi’s “right medicine” will help resuscitate the party in poll-bound Bihar, where it has been out of power for the last two decades. “We were ill there (Bihar). We got a good doctor, who gave us the right medicine. There [...]
Boy hung upside down, beaten in Bihar village
Patna, July 27 (CNN-IBN): A boy was hung upside down and beaten mercilessly in a Bihar village on Monday by the husband of the panchayat chief Sangita Devi. The OBC boy, Rajesh Mahato, was accused of a rape attempt and then assaulted. The victim’s family though claims that the boy was punished for exposing corruption [...]
Bihar opposition parties demand President’s rule
Patna, July 22 (DH News Service):Almost the entire Opposition members, comprising RJD, LJP, Congress, CPI and the CPM legislators, on Thursday took out a procession to the Raj Bhavan where they submitted a memorandum to Governor Devanand Konwar demanding imposition of President’s rule in Bihar. The Opposition parties are of the view that a free [...]
Nitish Kumar must go: Bihar Oppn
Patna, July 22 (IANS): The Opposition in Bihar on Thursday stuck to its demand for the resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his alleged involvement in a Rs 11,412 crore scam, a day after a slipper was flung at the assembly speaker amid unruly scenes. And, upping the ante, 11 legislators of the Lok [...]
LJP demands for Prez rule in Bihar
July 21 (Samay Live): Lok Janshakti Party on Wednesday in view of the Constitutional breakdown in Bihar, demanded imposition of President’s rule in the state. ”There is a complete Constitutional breakdown in Bihar. People are coming out on the streets against corruption. I demand that President’s rule be imposed there. LJP and RJD will also [...]
Rabri out of fight for CM’s post in Bihar polls
July 20 (IANS) : She has been chief minister for eight years, but Rabri Devi may be out of the reckoning this time with the view that only her husband and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad or partner LJP’s Ram Vilas Paswan can counter Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the Bihar assembly polls. In fact, Lalu Prasad [...]
Paswan seeks ban on RSS, VHP
July, 17 (TNN)Saharsa/Madhepura: Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan has alleged that the RSS, Bajrang Dal and VHP were involved in 90 per cent riots and bomb explosions in the country and demanded that these organizations should be banned in the country. While addressing a public meeting at Sattar Kataiya, about 12 km [...]
Bihar opposition parties demand Nitish Kumar’s resignation
Patna, July 16 (IANS) The opposition parties in Bihar called for the resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Friday, a day after Patna High Court ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against him into alleged financial irregularities of Rs.11,412 crore. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), the Congress and [...]
Congress, BJP trying to ruin Bihar regional parties: Lalu
July 16 (The Hindu): Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad on Thursday accused the BJP and the Congress of being hand in glove to decimate regional parties in Bihar. Both the Congress and the BJP-Janata Dal (United) alliance were tacitly working to destroy the State’s harmony, he alleged. Mr. Prasad criticised Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s [...]
Cong all set for Bihar blitz
July 16 (Hindustan Times): The Congress is bracing up to show it is back in the reckoning in Bihar. After more than 20 years, the party is organising a public rally on its own at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna next month. Congress sources said party president Sonia Gandhi would address the election rally, to [...]
Lalu, Paswan to tour Bihar for upcoming Assembly elections
July 15 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan will jointly kickstart their election campaign for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections by air dashing 40 places in the state in the next 10 days beginning this Friday. “From July 16 till July 25, I along [...]
Strike evokes a near total response in Bihar
Patna, July 10 (IANS) A strike called by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) to protest against the fuel price hike hit train and road services and paralysed normal life across Bihar Saturday. More than 5,000 protesters, including RJD chief Lalu Prasad and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, were arrested [...]
Fuel price hike: LJP, RJD call Bihar bandh on July 10
Patna, June 27: Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD have called a 24-hour Bihar bandh jointly on July 10 to protest the hike in fuel prices. “Petroleum price hike will raise the price of various commodities. UPA government at the Centre and the ruling JD(U)-BJP combine in the state are responsible for [...]
RJD expels two for cross-voting in Rajya Sabha polls
Patna, June 18 : The opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Friday expelled two legislators for six years for voting for the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) during the Rajya Sabha elections Thursday in Bihar. Rajesh Kumar Singh and Pappu Yadav were expelled for violating the party whip. “The party has expelled two legislators for cross-voting in [...]
Paswan, Rudy make it to Rajya Sabha from Bihar
Patna, June 17 : Five candidates from the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the opposition, led by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), were elected to the Rajya Sabha from Bihar Thursday despite cross-voting by some legislators. Official sources said that LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, BJP spokesman Rajiv Pratap [...]
Paswan favours headcount on caste basis
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan Wednesday supported enumerating the population on the basis of caste, saying that it is a reality in Indian society and having caste-based data would help the government in planning various socio-economic schemes. “Ignoring the issue won’t do as caste is a reality [...]
Bharat Bandh evokes widespread response in Bihar
The Bihar NEWS, April 27: LJP president Ram Vilas Paswan and RJD general secretary, Ram Kripal Yadav, were among the 4,500 people who courted arrest on the occasion of Bharat Bandh in Bihar on Tuesday. The Bandh call given by 13 non-NDA and non-UPA parties evoked good response almost all over the state. In Patna [...]
The suspense ends, now all Dalits are Mahadalits in Bihar
The Bihar NEWS, April 05: Now it is clear: the Bihar chief minister had problem with the expression, Dalit. Therefore, the Bihar government coined a new concept, Mahadalit. On Sunday Nitish Kumar announced that his government would soon be distributing three decimals of land to the landless members of the Dussadh (Paswan) sub-caste of the [...]
Dry leaves catch fire in Paswan’s house, 2 cars damaged
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) A fire broke out Friday afternoon in the lawns of Lok Janshakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan’s residence, next to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s house in Delhi. There was no report of any causality, an official said. “There were dry leafs in his lawns that caught fire around 3.20 p.m. [...]
