Date:27/12/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/12/27/stories/2006122702731500.htm

National

Paswan re-elected LJP president

Special Correspondent

— Photo: Shanker Chakravarty

CHIEF AGAIN: Ram Vilas Paswan being felicitated after he was unanimously re-elected Lok Jan Shakti Party president during the National Executive meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday. Phool Singh Baharia, national vice-president of the party, is at right.

NEW DELHI : Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan was re-elected president of the Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJP) for a period of three years by the party's national executive committee meeting held at his official residence here on Tuesday.

Mr. Paswan has headed the LJP since its inception in late 2000.

His name was proposed by Ranjan Prasad Yadav and the national executive elected him unanimously.