PATNA, June 2 -- The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) is likely to make a formal proposal to its chief Chirag Paswan to contest the upcoming assembly polls in Bihar, with lawmaker and party's state in-charge Arun Bharti urging the Union minister to contest the state elections from an "unreserved" seat. It comes weeks after Paswan, who is the Union minister for food processing industries, expressed his intent to focus on Bihar politics. Bharti, who is the brother-in-law of the party chief, said the LJP(RV) workers want Paswan to contest from a general category seat if he does decide to fight the assembly polls due in October-November instead of a constituency reserved for the Scheduled Castes, a path often chosen by leaders from the Dalit community. "Our party national president Chirag Paswan always says that his politics is Bihar-centric and his vision 'Bihar first, Bihari first' is a resolution for a developed and self-reliant Bihar. This is possible only when he himself stays in Bihar and leads the organisation," Bharti, the Lok Sabha MP from Jamui, said in a post in Hindi on X. He said the people of Bihar want Paswan to play a bigger role in the state politics, adding that party workers also feel he should contest the elections not from a reserved seat, but from a general seat - "so that the message goes out that he is now ready to lead the entire Bihar, and not just one section." Bharti further said that the party's state executive panel, which met a few days back, endorsed Paswan's desire to contest the upcoming assembly elections. The LJP(RV), which is a key constituent of the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre as well as in Bihar, galvanised into action mode after Paswan shared the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public meeting in Rohtas on May 30. Party insiders said the national executive was hurriedly convened at Bikramganj soon after the departure of PM Modi for New Delhi, and unanimously passed a resolution, urging Paswan to contest the state elections. The move by the LJP(RV) is also being seen as pressure-building tactics by the party ahead of the seat-sharing talks among the constituents of the NDA, also comprising chief minister Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United), former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Morcha. Paswan, in an interview to a media channel, on Sunday said he had left his plans to contest the assembly elections entirely to his party. "If the party wants, I am ready to contest the Assembly elections," he added. Another senior LJP(RV) leader, however, said there are a lot of issues to be resolved in the NDA in Bihar before letting Paswan take a plunge into the state electoral politics. In the 2020 assembly polls, it was the Paswan-led party, the then undivided LJP, that had played a spoiler for Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)....