Chirag Paswan Breaks Silence, Says 'No One Can Replace Me As LJP's National President'
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Patna: ChiragPaswan on Wednesday launched a scathing attack against his uncle, Pashupati Kumar Paras, and said that no one has the constitutional right to remove him as LokJanashakti Party's National President. While addressing the first press conference after this whole fiasco broke, Chirag said, “Appointment of Leader of House is parliamentary committee’s decision, not sitting MPs….There have been reports that I’ve been removed as the party’s national president. As per the party’s constitution, National President can only be removed if he/she dies or resigns.”
Accusing some party leaders of conspiring to break the party, Chirag said, “Some people were making attempts to break the party when my father was hospitalised. My father asked party leaders, including my uncle (Pashupati Kumar Paras) about the same. Some people weren’t ready for the struggle we had to go through.”
PashupatiParas and four other MPs on Monday broke away and asked the Speaker to recognize them as a separate group, leaving ChiragPaswan, their leader, alone in what was a group of six MPs in the LokSabha.
“I was looking up to my uncle (Pashupati Kumar Paras) when my father and other uncle passed away…I didn’t become an orphan when my father passed away. But I did, when my uncle did this,” Chirag said.
Earlier, in the day, Paswan wrote a letter to LokSabha Speaker Om Birla questioning his decision to appoint Paras as the leader of the LJP Parliamentary Party.
"Since Article 26 of the Constitution of the LJP empowers the central Parliamentary Board of the party to decide who would be the leader of the party in the LokSabha, hence the decision announcing Pashupati Kumar Paras, MP, as leader of LJP in the LokSabha is contrary to that provision of the constitution of LJP," Paswan wrote in his letter to the Speaker.
