a la<\/em> Sharad Pawar. That helped him through a multitude of victories and a couple of defeats and allowed him the moral latitude to align with a party that a confirmed socialist and fighter for Dalit rights like him would never have dreamt of in his youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPaswan was no Jayaprakash Narayan. His wont was not to start a movement. But in his own way, he was able to catch the imagination of the impoverished and the downtrodden. Quite like Lalu, he was the one who could conjure up dreams in a crowd with complex thoughts expressed through simple analogies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His last days were a trifle dark as he had to explain his association with the ultra-right BJP and sharing of platforms with people against whom he started his political life. But then, even former president Pranab Mukherjee did not bother to make excuses when he visited the RSS headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paswan\u2019s son Chirag will now take on his father\u2019s mantle. Interestingly, quite like the young Turks in the Congress, Chirag has the tacit support of Lalu\u2019s son Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, the probable chief ministerial face of the mahagathbandhan<\/em> against the BJP, and of another aspirant, Shantanu Bundela, a post-graduate from London Univer\u00adsity and son of Sharad Yadav.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThis is the new trio of Bihar politics now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This tall Dalit leader could catch the imagination of the impoverished and the downtrodden with his simple analogies, and at the same time, make friends from all political dispensations By India Legal Bureau In India, the passion for politics starts early and lasts a lifetime for those so inclined. Rarely, if ever, has a politician […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[62,2472],"tags":[619,95071,1225,5995,59638,987,1386,966,953,1218,6569,640,29918,3359,95070],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10152524\/Ramvilash-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}