New Delhi | Lok Janshakti Party MP from Bihar’s Samastipur, Prince Raj, was booked by the Delhi Police for raping a party office-bearer and destroying a related evidence, the police said. “An FIR was lodged at the Connaught Place Police Station against Raj on the direction of a Delhi Court on September 9,” a police official […]
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Lok Janshakti Party snubs BJP in Jharkhand, to contest alone on 50 seats
New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday received another setback after its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ally Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) decided to contest the Jharkhand Assembly polls alone. The 81-member Jharkhand Assembly will vote in five phases starting from November 30 to December 20. Counting of votes will take place on December 23. Sharing the news […]
Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party splits in Bihar
Patna: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) has split with senior party leader and General Secretary Satyanand Sharma, along with several other party office-bearers resigning and forming a new party — the LJP (Secular). Sharma has accused Paswan of promoting only his family members in the party and said the LJP has […]
LJP says Ram Vilas Paswan to be its representative in Modi cabinet
New Delhi: Ram Vilas Paswan will be the Lok Janshakti Party’s representative in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Council of Ministers, his son and Parliamentary Party chief Chirag Paswan said here on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference after the party’s Parliamentary Board meeting, Chirag Paswan said he himself was not inclined to become a minister as […]
I’m no weatherman but what I predict happens: Ram Vilas Paswan
Patna: BJP ally Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday said that he is not a “mausam vaigyanik” (weatherman), as his rivals describe him, but he understands the pulse of the people and what he predicts after observation, actually happens. A day after victory of the ruling National Democratic […]
LJP says ‘temple and talaq’ are dangerous issues for NDA in polls
Patna | After Nitish Kumar-led JD-U, another BJP ally LJP on Saturday warned that Ram temple and triple talaq issues are dangerous for the the ruling NDA at the Centre. Lok Janshakti Party MP Chirag Paswan, son of party chief Ram Vilas Paswan, said the NDA should not make both issues as election planks. “Both […]