What Does The Coup D'état In LJP Imply?

A high-voltage political drama uncoiled in the national capital New Delhi on Monday when the flunked thespian-cum-model-turned-renegade & seasonal politician Chirag Kumar Paswan, the legatee of the political doyen of Bihar and the founding father of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Ram Vilas Paswan, approached his mutinous uncle Pashupati Nath Paras when the latter orchestrated an abrupt coup with 5 of the 6 Lok Sabha MPs of the LJP endorsing Mr. Paras's strive to supersede Chirag as the leader of the Parliamentary Party in the Lower House. Chirag had ascertained the insurrection late on Sunday night. On Monday morning, to thwart the coup, he dashed to meet his uncle. He was precluded at the gate for virtually 25 minutes and when he eventually coped to set his foot in his uncle's residence, he was apprised that Mr. Paras was not at his residence leaving him mortified, offended, and dumbfounded. Later, Mr. Paras affirmed that he has no remonstrances against Chirag and he was nobbut saving the party's bacon by not letting it sunder. He also eulogized Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar denominating him a Vikash Purush evincing that he'll be eschewing the avenue laid down by his nephew.

This intra-party putsch was brewing in the LJP since the party at Chirag Paswan at its helm electorally [not officially] divorced from the NDA in the Assembly election late last year, excoriated the incumbent CM Nitish Kumar by impelling the anti-incumbency wave, and contended on its own, ensuing an egregious and discreditable vanquish by the ruling NDA, securing just a single seat. And the lone MLA Raj Kumar Singh too was inducted in the JD(U) in April this year by the now-debilitated CM Nitish Kumar. Despite drawing a blank in the election, the LJP tarnished and mangled the JD(U) plummeting its tally to merely 44 seats in the 243-membered Assembly. Some political scientists hypothesize the ongoing state of precariousness in the LJP as a vengeance by Nitish Kumar for inflicting a concatenation of detrimental stratagem against his deep-seated state party in the Assembly election.

The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), a splinter of the JD(U), was instituted in 2000 by the politically battle-scarred, the then-mutineer, Dalit-proponent, and torchbearer of the backward faction of Bihar's politics Ram Vilas Paswan, who was amusingly and affectionately designated a "Mausam Vaigyanik" (meteorologist) by the veteran Lalu Prasad Yadav.

While Ram Vilas Paswan was a political meteorologist, contrastingly, his inheritor Chirag is an incipient politician parachuted from the razzle-dazzle of Mumbai with no grassroots base. Merely bring a lucid rhetorician doesn't attest to the political shrewdness and rabble-rousing proficiency of a politician. Chirag needs to peruse and scrutinize Bihar's iffy politics and toil at the nitty-gritty instead of being a tourist politician who only crops up during the election heat and evanesces thereafter. The near future of the LJP is wretched, vague, dubious, and dicey and will see a further tumble if the central-leadership deficit subsists.