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Lok Sabha Election 2024: In a major blow to Chirag Paswan's LJP-Ram Vilas, 22 leaders of Lok Janshakti Party tendered their resignations simultaneously while expressing anger at not getting tickets for the upcoming general elections. LJP minister Renu Kushwaha, former MLA and national general secretary of LJP, Satish Kumar, state organization minister Ravindra Singh, Ajay Kushwaha, Sanjay Singh, and State General Secretary Rajesh Dangi are among the notable figures who stepped down.

Frustrated at not receiving the ticket, the National General Secretary of the LJP Satish Kumar declared that the rebel LJP leaders would now back the INDIA alliance. The resignation wave appears to stem from grievances within the party ranks, with allegations surfacing about the distribution of tickets in exchange for money.

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"When such important elections are there in the country, the LJP Supremo has given tickets to such people that the party workers are stunned. The people who used to raise slogans 'Hail Chirag Paswan', day and night and hoped for a 'new Bihar' have been betrayed, and their aspirations were crushed. Now to save the country, the INDI alliance has to be supported. Now we will support the INDI alliance," Kumar said as quoted by news agency ANI.

The rebel leaders have made serious allegations against Chirag Paswan of selling tickets in the elections. He has also been accused of deceiving some leaders by giving them repeated assurances of contesting the elections. Ravindra Singh, LJP's Organization Secretary claimed that Paswan 'sold the tickets'.

"Tickets should be given to the party workers instead of people from outside. Tickets were given to the outsiders which means that able people are not there in your party. Are we the labour class people in your party who will work for you, and make you a leader? Our devotion was questioned when an outsider was given a ticket. We are not here to serve as labourers for the party," former MP Renu Kushwaha said on the resignation from the party.

LJP To Contest Five Seats In Bihar

The Lok Janshakti Party is contesting five seats in Bihar out of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar. These five constituencies include Vaishali, Hajipur, Samastipur, Khagaria and Jamui. In Bihar, the polling will be held in seven phases. The first phase of polling will begin on April 19, the second phase on April 26, the third phase on May 7, the fourth phase on May 13, the fifth phase on May 20, the sixth phase on May 25, and the seventh phase on June 1.

(With ANI Inputs)