Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP) president Pashupati Kumar Paras on Saturday declared that his party will contest the November Bihar Assembly elections alone, making it clear that he was forced to take the decision after his attempts to join the Opposition Mahagathbandhan could not succeed.

“I made significant efforts to forge an alliance with the Mahagathbandhan this time, but it didn’t materialise,” he said, announcing a list of the RLJP’s 33 candidates.

Paras, who had represented Alauli (Khagaria) seat seven times between 1977 and 2010, had hoped to get at least three seats from the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan, which was however not convinced by his political standing.

A former Union minister, Paras, younger brother of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) founder Ram Vilas Paswan, had severed h

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