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Speaking at News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2025, Paswan, a key NDA ally, said whatever Paras is doing with his father’s first wife is unfortunate and it makes his blood boil
Following Ramvilas Paswan’s death, Paras engineered a split in Lok Janshakti Party in 2021, and became the union minister. (Photo: News18)
Union Minister Chirag Paswan on Wednesday opened up on the latest feud in his family involving his estranged uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras and his ‘badi maa’ Rajkumari Devi, the first wife of his late father Ram Vilas Paswan.
Speaking at News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2025, Paswan, a key NDA ally, said whatever Paras is doing with his father’s first wife is unfortunate and it makes his blood boil.
“If someone pushes you, you can tolerate this… But if someone does this to your mother, it makes your blood boil. I keep myself in check while speaking, keeping our relationship in mind. But it bothers me,” he said.
Paswan was referring to a recent feud between Rajkumari Devi and the wife of Paras, against whom the former has lodged a case accusing the latter of trying to evict her from her late husband’s ancestral house in Bihar’s Khagaria district.
Elaborating on his ties with Paras, the Union Minister pointed out that his uncle did not open the door for him after the death of Ramvilas that later led to a split in the Lok Janshakti Party.
“I am not comfortable talking about this in public but circumstances are such that there is nothing to hide and everything is in the public domain… I went to him but he did not open the door… I was not well at that time. He is elder to me and I cannot say anything to him beyond a point. But the subject here is related to my mothers. It is unfortunate… I am a fighter son,” he said.
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Following Ramvilas Paswan’s death, Paras engineered a split in Lok Janshakti Party in 2021, and became the union minister.
The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president has claimed that “personal and political ambitions” had led Paras, a former Union minister himself “to first break the party and now break the family”.
“After my father died, we hoped that ‘chacha’ (uncle) would lead the family. But he got me ousted from the party, caused its extinction, got my mother and me evicted from our house and grabbed for himself a cabinet berth,” the Hajipur MP said.
The Union minister said, “I urge ‘chacha’ not to bring women of the family into his fight against me. He seems eager on getting the house partitioned.” “Let him first sort out the ‘benami’ wealth he has amassed from Bihar to Noida. He should rein in ‘chachi’ (his wife) whose behaviour has angered local villagers,” he claimed.
“I have known that ‘chachi’ had been a government teacher. But after her bad behaviour with ‘badi ma’, villagers have started complaining about her misdeeds such as never going to the school, getting attendance registers signed at her home and other irregularities,” Paswan added.
Paras resigned from the Union cabinet ahead of Lok Sabha polls, in protest against the BJP throwing its weight behind his nephew, who also got for himself the Hajipur seat, represented by his father multiple times and held by the estranged uncle till 2024.
(With PTI inputs)