New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President JP Nadda asked Lok Jan Shakti Party (Ramvilas) leader Chirag Paswan to join National Democratic Alliance (NDA) meeting on July 18.
Amid the effort to bring a united opposition to tackle Naredra Modi by key Opposition parties, the BJP-led NDA is also gearing up for the upcoming general elections in 2024.
In an invitation letter to Chirag, JP Nadda noted LJP(Rambilas) as a key companion of NDA.
@BJP4India के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष आदरणीय श्री @JPNadda जी ने लोक जनशक्ति पार्टी (रामविलास) के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष आदरणीय श्री @iChiragPaswan जी को एनडीए (NDA) की बैठक में शामिल होने को लेकर लिखा पत्र ।@ANI @PTI_News pic.twitter.com/iCdu4V3NnY
— Lok Janshakti Party (@LJP4India) July 15, 2023
The Meeting will be held in Ashok Hotel in Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be present at the meeting.
After being annexed by NDA after his father and Veteral Dalit leader Rambilas Paswan died, the BJP-led alliance is now inviting Chirag Paswan to join the meeting.
Earlier, Chirag met Union Minister Nityanand Rai twice in a week which created the buzz around him joining NDA again. In the 2020, Bihar Assembly election he distanced himself from NDA to fight against Nitish Kumar’s Janta Dal United (JDU).
Regain the vote bank
After the demise of his father Rambilas Paswan his uncle Pasupati Paras, who is a Union Minister in the current NDA government, claimed and later took over LJP allegedly with BJP’s help.
Having been thrown out of Party that his father had established in 2000, Chirag created his own faction LJP (Rambilas) and outreached his father’s loyal vote Bank in last 3 years.
Last week he hold a meeting with party officials to discuss the decision to join the alliance. Later, the party announced that it has entitled Chirag to take a call on to join an alliance.
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