Posters projecting Chirag as next CM dot city intersections
Patna: Posters of LJP(RV) chief and Union minister
Chirag Paswan
carrying slogans like 'Bihar ka CM Chirag chahiye', 'Bihar kar raha tajposhi ka intzaar', 'Bihar First, Bihari first' and 'Chirag ke swagat ko Bihar hai Taiyar', were put up at many intersections of the city on Sunday.
The LJP(RV), which passed a resolution in its state executive committee meeting on Friday to maintain an "independent identity" in the coming assembly election, has been branding its leader Chirag as the next
Bihar CM
.
The posters put up in the city also mentioned that "we don't want riots, violence or chaos, we want Bihar's CM Chirag".
Chirag himself has categorically said he was willing to move from Centre to Bihar politics and contest assembly polls.
He, on Friday, wrote to the PM requesting him to include Bhagalpur in the PM Mitra Yojana and develop the region as a textile hub with a mega textile park. The LJP(RV) has no MP from Bhagalpur and his letter to PM raised eyebrows in the political circles about the future plans of Chirag.
The moves are also being interpreted as a pressure tactics for more seats in the NDA to contest the coming assembly polls, as Chirag is considered a hard bargainer on the strength of his support base among Paswan and dalit communities in the state.
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The posters of Chirag put up by the party's Sheikhpura district president demanding that the son of late Ram Vilas Paswan be made the Bihar CM, is bound to raise the political temperature of the state before the assembly polls. Although Chirag has already said the NDA would contest the Bihar election under the leadership of CM
Nitish Kumar
, political pundits recall the 2020 assembly elections in which he had fielded candidates against JD(U) in many constituencies, resulting in a major setback for the Nitish's party, which was reduced to third place with just 43 seats in its kitty.
However, in a TV news channel programme, Chirag said he did not crave for the CM or any post. He also said there was no vacancy for the CM's post in Bihar.
Patna: Posters of LJP(RV) chief and Union minister Chirag Paswan carrying slogans like 'Bihar ka CM Chirag chahiye', 'Bihar kar raha tajposhi ka intzaar', 'Bihar First, Bihari first' and 'Chirag ke swagat ko Bihar hai Taiyar', were put up at many intersections of the city on Sunday.
The LJP(RV), which passed a resolution in its state executive committee meeting on Friday to maintain an "independent identity" in the coming assembly election, has been branding its leader Chirag as the next Bihar CM.
The posters put up in the city also mentioned that "we don't want riots, violence or chaos, we want Bihar's CM Chirag".
Chirag himself has categorically said he was willing to move from Centre to Bihar politics and contest assembly polls.
He, on Friday, wrote to the PM requesting him to include Bhagalpur in the PM Mitra Yojana and develop the region as a textile hub with a mega textile park. The LJP(RV) has no MP from Bhagalpur and his letter to PM raised eyebrows in the political circles about the future plans of Chirag.
The moves are also being interpreted as a pressure tactics for more seats in the NDA to contest the coming assembly polls, as Chirag is considered a hard bargainer on the strength of his support base among Paswan and dalit communities in the state.
The posters of Chirag put up by the party's Sheikhpura district president demanding that the son of late Ram Vilas Paswan be made the Bihar CM, is bound to raise the political temperature of the state before the assembly polls. Although Chirag has already said the NDA would contest the Bihar election under the leadership of CM Nitish Kumar, political pundits recall the 2020 assembly elections in which he had fielded candidates against JD(U) in many constituencies, resulting in a major setback for the Nitish's party, which was reduced to third place with just 43 seats in its kitty.
However, in a TV news channel programme, Chirag said he did not crave for the CM or any post. He also said there was no vacancy for the CM's post in Bihar.
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