PATNA: In the first major organizational shake-up following the party’s dismal performance in the recently concluded state assembly polls, LJP president Chirag Paswan on Wednesday dissolved all the party’s committees at the state and district levels in Bihar and decided to infuse new blood.
“Except for the LJP state president Prince Raj, who has been retained, all other members of various committees at state and district levels have been relieved of their positions and functions with immediate effect. Party’s all cells, state-level committees and district level committees have been dissolved,” LJP’s spokesperson Ashraf Ansari told TOI on Wednesday.
Ansari said the decision to dissolve all the committees of main organization as well as its cells was taken at a crucial meeting of the party’s state parliamentary board, its vice-presidents, MPs, former MPs, state chief of all cells and state spokespersons. The meeting, presided over by the LJP chief Chirag Paswan, was held at the party’s office in the state capital.
Ansari said all the committees would be formed in the next two months, before February 15 next year. “Several new people have joined the party in the recent months, especially during the assembly elections. The new committees will be formed taking all new and old people together to infuse new blood in the organization at the state and the district level,” he said.
“The decision to dissolve all the committees was taken after thorough consultation with the party’s Lok Sabha members. All MPs and former MPs were consulted,” a senior party leader told TOI.
LJP’s lone MLA Raj Kumar Singh, however, could not attend the meeting. Ansari said Singh was suffering from Covid-19.