Chirag Paswan on being inducted as Union Minister: ‘Huge responsibility for me’

LJP (Ram Vilas) Chief Chirag Paswan, after his swearing-in as the Union Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Sunday, said, he will fulfil the responsibility with full honesty and hard work. Paswan thanked PM Modi for trusting him.

“This is a huge responsibility for me… I will ensure that I fulfil this responsibility with full honesty and hard work… The credit for this goes to the Prime Minister. He had so much faith in a party with a single MP and gave it 5 seats… I have also given them all 5 seats by winning them..,” Chirag Pawan was quoted by news agency ANI as saying.

“In the last 10 years, the govt has given priority to schemes related to the welfare of the poor. We will move ahead with that thinking to reduce the difference between the rich and the poor, and villages and towns,” he added.

Chirag Paswan registered a thumping victory in Bihar’s Hajipur Lok Sabha seat by over 1.70 lakh votes against RJD’s Shiv Chandra Ram.

Besides Chirag Paswan, PM Modi inducted seven MPs from Bihar into his council of ministers, with four of them from the allies, a move seen as the BJP’s attempt to balance the caste equation before next year’s assembly elections.

Uttar Pradesh and Bihar appear to have got the maximum representation in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new council of ministers, while assembly poll-bound Maharashtra also found a significant presence, news agency PTI reported.

Uttar Pradesh, which sends the most members, 80, to the Lok Sabha, has got nine ministerial berths, which includes one Cabinet, while Bihar has bagged four cabinet berths out of a total of eight ministers from the state.