The Election Fee will hear the dispute between the 2 factions of the Lok Janshakti Social gathering (LJP) for the management of the occasion title and image on November 29, Election Fee (EC) sources mentioned Tuesday.
The EC has written to the leaders of the 2 teams — Chirag Paswan and Union Meals Processing Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras — to look for a private listening to on November 29 and to submit any statements or paperwork in reference to their case by November 28, sources mentioned.
After the demise of LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan in 2020, his son, Chirag Paswan, and brother, Paras, had each staked declare to the occasion management.
In October 2021, the EC had frozen the occasion title and image until the dispute was resolved. It had allotted the title Lok Janshakti Social gathering (Ram Vilas) to Chirag Paswan’s faction and Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Social gathering to Paras’ aspect until it reached a ultimate choice within the matter.
In the meantime, the ballot panel additionally wrote to the 2 factions of the Shiv Sena, every led by Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, to submit all paperwork in help of their claims to the occasion management by November 23.
“In case no additional paperwork/particulars are obtained, will probably be assumed that your group has nothing to say within the matter and the Fee will proceed additional within the dispute case, together with settling the date of hearings,” the EC wrote to the 2 leaders.