'Chirag Paswan left NDA as LJP was offered only 15 seats’

PATNA: Jamui MP Chirag Paswan’s political adviser Saurabh Pandey on Saturday wrote to Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras, elaborating the reasons for the decision of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) to go solo in the state assembly election held last year.
Pandey said the NDA partners had offered only 15 seats to the LJP in the assembly polls.
“It was not possible to fulfil the dreams of the party’s founder late Ram Vilas Paswan with the seats offered to the LJP by the NDA,” he wrote.
“The party’s ‘Bihar first, Bihari first’ vision document was prepared with the consent of senior Paswan and it was proposed to be launched at a meeting to be held at Gandhi Maidan in Patna. But it could not be held due to Covid pandemic,” the letter read.
“Mein Bihar ko Ram Vilas Paswan ki ankhon se dekhta hun. Bihar first, Bihari first document was prepared with the sole motive to put Bihar on the top of the development map in the country,” Saurabh’s letter read.
Paras had earlier alleged that it was Saurabh who provoked Chirag to snap ties with the NDA, which resulted in the party’s poor performance in the assembly polls.