The BJP has nominated Sushil Kumar Modi for the seat (Archive)
New Delhi:
LJP Chairman Chirag Paswan said on Saturday that it was the prerogative of the BJP to announce a candidate for the Bihar Rajya Sabha elections.
The seat was vacated after the death of Chirag Paswan’s father and founder of the Lok Janshakti Party, Ram Vilas Paswan. The BJP appointed former Bihar Chief Deputy Minister Sushil Kumar Modi to the post.
Sushil Modi is likely to win unopposed unless the opposition Grand Alliance presents a candidate to challenge him. In that case, the vote will take place on December 14.
A union minister, Ram Vilas Paswan, had been elected to the post last year after he was vacated following the election of his cabinet colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad to the Lok Sabha of Patna Sahib.
“The seat belonged to the BJP and it is the party that decides which party’s candidate to run in the by-elections,” the 37-year-old leader told reporters.
At one event, Chirag Paswan asked the party base to prepare for the next assembly elections that could take place “at any time”.
Responding to questions, Mr. Paswan said he saw “new elections taking place at any time in Bihar, given the way the new government is working.”
In a written message to party workers, Paswan defended his decision to go alone in the assembly polls, saying: “We had to choose between accepting the NDA’s offer of only 15 seats despite being a party with six members. at the Lok Sabha and one at the Rajya Sabha, or engage in a friendly fight to preserve our honor. “
The LJP chief, under whose leadership the party fought for more than half of the seats in the 243-member assembly but only won one, tried to cheer on his supporters and asked them to focus on the positive side.
“We were only able to win two seats in the previous assembly elections even though we had contested as part of the NDA. This time, we were alone, without an army of stellar activists to vote for us. But we got 28 lakhs of votes and now our party is being talked about throughout the state, “Paswan said.
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