Paswan, India’s Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, was admitted to a city hospital on September 11 and underwent heart surgery in October.
In his role as food minister, Paswan oversaw the world’s largest food welfare program. Under the multi-million dollar food aid, the government provides very cheap rice and wheat to millions of poor people in India.
In his long political career, Paswan has worked with many Prime Ministers and in other areas of India’s Department of Mines, Steel and Telecommunications and Information.
Paswan and his party represented India’s socially disadvantaged classes, which make up about three-quarters of the majority Hindu population, or about 0% of India’s 1.3 billion people.
The LJP is gaining significant support in Paswan’s home state of Bihar in the east.
State elections in Bihar will begin in late October and spread in three days, and MLA Chirag Paswan is leading the LJP to vote in the state assembly.
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