ECI allots new party names & symbols to Chirag Paswan, Pashupati Kumar Paras
Ahead of Assembly byelections for the Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur seats in Bihar, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has allotted the name 'Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and election symbol 'Helicopter' to Chirag Paswan on Tuesday.
New Delhi: Ahead of Assembly byelections for the Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur seats in Bihar, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has allotted the name 'Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and election symbol 'Helicopter' to Chirag Paswan on Tuesday. Pashupati Kumar Paras allotted the name 'Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party and 'Sewing Machine' as election symbols.
The ECI had frozen the ‘Bungalow’ election symbol of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) so that neither of the two factions of the party — led by Chirag Paswan, son of the late Ram Vilas Paswan, and Pashupati Kumar Paras, the senior Paswan’s brother — will be able to use it in the coming Assembly byelections for the Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur seats in Bihar. Polling is scheduled for October 30.
The Commission had said that “neither of the two groups…shall be permitted to use the name of the party ‘Lok Janshakti Party’ simplicitor”; they “shall be known by such names as they may choose”; and they “shall…be allotted such different symbols as they may choose from the list of free symbols…”.
Chirag Paswan had expelled five rebel MPs; the Paras-led camp removes him as party chief. Leaving the split wide open in the Lok Janshakti Party, five MPs led by Pasupati Paras claimed that they have removed party national president Chirag Paswan from the post. However, Paswan said that LJP called a national executive meet and removed the five rebel MPs from the party’s primary membership.
