President of India, Droupadi Murmu, has accepted the resignation of former Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras, who resigned from the Union Cabinet on Tuesday, and gave minister of earth sciences Kiren Rijiju the extra cost of the ministry of meals processing industries that was held by Paras.

“The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has accepted the resignation of Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras from the Union Council of Ministers, with immediate effect, under clause (2) of Article 75 of the Constitution,” stated a press release from the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

“Further, as advised by the prime minister, the President has directed that Kiren Rijiju be assigned the charge of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, in addition to his existing portfolio,” it added.

Paras, the president of the Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP), an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), resigned from the Union Cabinet a day after his occasion was not assigned a single seat within the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) seat-sharing deal in Bihar for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Instead, the LJP (Ram Vilas), led by Paras’s nephew Chirag Paswan, will probably be contesting give seats, together with the household’s stronghold of Hajipur.

Chirag Paswan broke away from the Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RJLP), based by his father Ram Vilas Paswan, and the NDA and contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections along with his personal occasion, as a consequence of his feud with the JD(U), which was additionally an NDA member.

“Yesterday, the NDA announced the list of 40 candidates for Bihar Lok Sabha [..] Our party had five MPs and I worked with utmost sincerity [..] Injustice has been done with us and our party. Therefore, I resign from the post of Union minister,” Paras stated at a press convention on Tuesday.

Paras additionally known as Prime Minister Narendra Modi a giant chief and stated that he was grateful to him. He expressed his displeasure over the remedy meted out to him and stated that he had served the NDA with honesty and loyalty however obtained injustice. It is probably going that Paras will combat the Hajipur seat, as he has repeatedly claimed he’ll, which can pitch him in opposition to Paswan himself.

The BJP will probably be contesting 17 out of 40 seats in Bihar, whereas Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal-United (JD-U) will probably be contesting 16. This is the primary time the BJP will probably be contesting extra seats than its major ally in Bihar. In 2019, the NDA swept Bihar, successful 39 out of the 40 seats. The BJP gained all 17 it contested, the JD-U 16, the LJP six.