Chirag Paswan

An official in the ministry said that the bungalow is earmarked for Union ministers and the occupants of the government accommodation have been asked to vacate it.

Kumar retained the Chief Ministers seat though relations between the JD(U) and LJP continued to sour.

Chirag Paswan, who launched the 'Ashirvad Yatra' from Hajipur, said that he doesn't have the status to show off and the aim is to take blessings of the people

In an interview with PTI, Chirag Paswan said his father Ram Vilas Paswan and he always stood by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP like a "rock" but the saffron party was not there when he expected their intervention during these "difficult" times.

The decision comes as a counter-move to the national executive meeting called by the group headed by Chirag Paswan in Delhi on Sunday.

Breaking his silence over the drama in LJP following the coup ousting him as its party president, Chirag Paswan him as its party president. He said that he tried his best to keep the family and the party united but failed.

Both factions have now moved to control the party and project their group as the real LJP, founded by Chirag Paswan’s father Ram Vilas Paswan

Just yesterday, the younger brother of late Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, Pashupati Kumar Paras was notified as the new parliamentary leader of the party in Lok Sabha.

The loss of five party MPs, who have vouched to rejoin NDA under Nitish Kumar, has put a big question mark on the political career of the 38-year-old Chirag Paswan, who switched to politics from Bollywood in 2013

The change in leadership was formally approved after five out of six LJP MPs wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, seeking the appointment of Pashupati Kumar Paras as their new leader in the Lower House.

JD(U) national president RCP Singh reacted with a sense of vindication to the developments in the party founded by late Ram Vilas Paswan, whose son has been left cornered in a revolt led by the former's younger brother Pashupati Kumar Paras and supported by four other MPs, including nephew Prince Raj.

Five Lok Sabha MPs of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) are said to have joined hands to oust Chirag Paswan as their leader in the Lok Sabha by electing his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras in his place

A source said the group of MPs has conveyed their decision to the Lok Sabha Speaker. There has been no official comment from either Chirag Paswan, who has not been keeping well, or the rebel group so far.

The Bihar mandate may have given NDA another chance to rule the state, but it led to dip in the stature of the incumbent chief minister Nitish Kumar whose party Janata Dal (United) won just 43 seats and polled 15 percent votes, a dip from 71 seats and over 40 percent vote share in 2015 elections.

The LJP succeeded in damaging Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JDU by cutting into its votes in at least 28 seats.

In 2015 elections, when the Nitish Kumar-led JDU contested elections as part of the Grand Alliance, or the Mahagathbandhan, the party had bagged 71 seats. The LJP had, in 2015, won 2 of the 42 seats it contested

With his party winning only one seat while being instrumental in the defeat of the BJP's ally JD(U) in many seats, Paswan tweeted that he was "proud" that his party did not bend down for power.

As the trends suggest, the LJP has succeeded in damaging prospects of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JDU by cutting into its votes in at least 30 seats in Bihar elections 2020

Bihar Election 2020 highlights: Polling is underway in 94 constituencies of Bihar assembly in the second phase of elections which will decide the electoral fate of more than 1,450 candidates.

An 18-year-old man was shot dead and many others injured in alleged police firing after clashes during the immersion of Goddess Durga in Munger on October 26