India, July 8 -- With the Bihar elections not far away, new alignments are likely to emerge in the state. Amid this, union minister Chirag Paswan has claimed that his father, Ram Vilas Paswan, was adamantly against aligning with the BJP before the 2014 elections - Narendra Modi's big debut on the central political scene.

"He told me, 'I will poison myself than go with the BJP,' and I could not say much after that," Chirag Paswan said about his father, who was also a multi-term minister at the Centre, first with the Congress-led UPA under Manmohan Singh and then in Modi's BJP-led NDA. In all, Paswan Senior, who died in 2020, worked under six PMs, his son Chirag underlined.

Chirag also spoke about how "we could not meet Rahul Gandhi for t...