India
oi-Deepika S
Patna, July 06: Amid reports of his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras getting a berth in the union cabinet expansion, Chirag Paswan on Tuesday warned Prime Minister Narendra Modi against inducting his uncle in the cabinet on LJP quota.
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.
“It’s 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 into the union cabinet from…