Will Chirag get a berth in Modi cabinet

Chirag’s entry will be in NDA, will get place in Modi cabinet! How beneficial will this friendship be for the BJP? Before the Lok Sabha elections 2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party wants to strengthen its hold in Bihar and for this reason, BJP’s closeness with Lok Janshakti Party (LJP, Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan is increasing. It is being said that Chirag Paswan’s entry in the Narendra Modi cabinet has been confirmed. The way has been cleared for him to be made a minister at the Centre. Party sources even claim that he will soon be a part of the NDA. The monsoon session of Parliament is about to begin on 20 July. Chirag Paswan’s talks with the BJP have reached an important stage for this first return to the NDA. A day after Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai met Chirag in Patna, Bihar President of LJP (Ram Vilas) Raju Tiwari said that Chirag was offered a cabinet.

He told that talks have also taken place for the seat-sharing arrangement for the party in next year’s Lok Sabha elections. He said that LJP (RV) wants six Lok Sabha seats in Bihar including Hajipur and one seat in Rajya Sabha. He said, ‘Chirag is likely to meet BJP President JP Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah before a consensus is reached between the two parties.’ Whose Hajipur will it be? However, in June 2021, Chirag’s uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, who divided the party by taking 5 out of 6 Lok Sabha MPs of LJP with him, can become a thorn in his path. Because both the factions claim the Hajipur seat. This is the same seat that the late Ram Vilas Paswan, the founder of the party, represented several times. Paras now represents Hajipur in the Lok Sabha but Chirag wants to inherit his father’s legacy associated with this constituency. It remains to be seen how the BJP accommodates Paras. This is the same Paras who is believed to have been included in the cabinet when CM Nitish Kumar was in the NDA. Nitish had helped Paras Actually, Nitish Kumar wanted to teach a lesson to Chirag, who played an important role in the defeat of many JD (U) MLAs. Chirag fielded many rebel leaders against JDU candidates and caused a huge loss to Nitish Kumar in the 2020 assembly elections. Since Nitish is now heading the Grand Alliance government and trying to unite non-BJP parties in the country against PM Narendra Modi, BJP needs an assertive and young leader like Chirag in Bihar to counter the JDU leader. needed. What will be the benefit of BJP? If all goes well, Chirag will return to the NDA after nearly three years, although he campaigned for the BJP in the recent bypolls to three assembly seats in the state. BJP had won two out of three seats. A senior Bihar BJP leader said, “Chirag’s return to the NDA will help the alliance consolidate its hold on the 4% Paswan votes in Bihar. Paswan is the most aggressive voter among Dalits in the state and he votes collectively. His vote does not go here and there. These parties are also contenders However, he added that any decision on seat-sharing at this stage would be premature. “Talks are also on for one seat each for Jitan Ram Manjhi-led HAM (S) and Mukesh Sahni-led Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP),” he said. In the 2014 general elections, the undivided LJP won six of the seven seats it contested. In 2019, LJP had achieved 100% strike rate by winning six seats. However, in the 2020 assembly elections, the LJP could win only