Patna (Bihar), June 17 -- : Pashupati Kumar Paras, the new leader of LJP in Lok Sabha, on Wednesday took a dig at his nephew Chirag Paswan saying he did not agree to contesting last year's Bihar assembly polls as part of the ruling National Democratic Alliance and it was a reason for the party's present problems.
Pashupati Kumar Paras said that the party had performed well when he was the party's Bihar unit chief during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls but was later removed.
"You must ask Chirag Paswan why did he remove me from the state president's post. We contested Bihar elections under my supervision and won six seats. We received the highest percentage of the vote as per the election commission," he said.
"We wanted to contest the election...