Chirag urges PM not to induct Paras in union cabinet as LJP member

Patna, Jul 06 (PTI): Amid reports of his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras getting a berth in the union cabinet expansion, Chirag Paswan on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi that nobody from the breakaway faction should be taken in the ministry from the LJP quota otherwise they would go to court.
He said Paras or somebody else siding with him can be made a minister as an Independent, but not as a member of the LJP with which they are no longer associated.
Sources in the political circles here said Paras, younger brother of dalit leader Ram Vilas Paswan and currently MP from Hajipur, has rushed to the national capital after getting a telephone call reportedly about his entry in the Modi cabinet.
“Its prerogative of the Prime Minister to include anybody in his cabinet. But, neither my uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras nor other MPs, who are no longer associated with the party founded by my father, should be inducted in the union cabinet from the LJP quota.
“If my uncle is inducted in the union cabinet from the LJP quota or as an LJP member, we will go to court,” the 38- year-old Jamui MP told reporters.
“I have no objection if he (Paras) is made minister as an Independent”, he said.