Ram Vilas Paswan Death Anniversary: ​​The rise of Ram Vilas Paswan in Indian politics was a very special event. Born on 5 July 1946 in Khagaria district of Bihar, Paswan had seen and faced the struggle of Dalit life very closely. He had described this struggle as a great inspiration for coming into politics. He was one of the most experienced leaders of the country and in his parliamentary experience of more than five decades, he was a Lok Sabha MP nine times and a Rajya Sabha MP twice.

Ram Vilas Paswan's political journey was quite interesting. He was a young man from a village who had to go to Patna and suffer a lot. He once said that Dalits have been subjected to great crimes and atrocities for thousands of years. I too have suffered all this in the village. When I came to Patna for studies, I had to struggle hard to get a place in the hostel. But the bug of leadership was inside me since long.

After completing his studies from Patna University, he joined the police force

Paswan joined the police after completing his studies from Patna University, which he left in 1969 to join politics. He was deeply influenced by socialist ideology and during the Emergency, he also went to jail. But this journey also started his journey to Delhi. In 1977, he won the Lok Sabha election from Hajipur seat in Bihar for the first time on a Janata Party ticket. Hajipur seat and Ram Vilas Paswan have always complemented each other. In 1989, he joined the cabinet for the first time in the Vishwanath Pratap Singh government at the Centre and became the Labour Welfare Minister.

He was also a minister in the cabinets of HD Devegowda and Inder Kumar Gujral

After this, he was a minister in the cabinet of HD Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral in the United Front government. In 1999, he was also a minister at the center in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. A year after this, he founded the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). After this, we see the tenure of UPA and NDA in the Indian politics at the center. Ram Vilas Paswan was a part of both these governments. This was his specialty. No matter which party was in power, he never remained out of the government. It was very famous about him that he could sense in politics in whose favor the wind was blowing. For this, he was also called the meteorologist of Indian politics.

It was the year 2014 when Ram Vilas Paswan left the UPA and joined the NDA

It was the year 2014 when Ram Vilas Paswan left the UPA and joined the NDA and even after his death, this partnership continues, which is being taken forward by his son Chirag Paswan. Chirag had told that he had a lot of difficulty in bringing his father from UPA to NDA. But somewhere it became easy for Ram Vilas Paswan to take this decision because of Rahul Gandhi. Chirag Paswan had once revealed that in the year 2014, even after making him wait for three months, when Rahul Gandhi did not take out time to meet Ram Vilas Paswan, it became very easy for him to convince his father to go to the BJP-led NDA.

A few months after his death, there was a rebellion in the Lok Janshakti Party against his own son.

Pradeep Srivastava's book gives a lot of information about the personal thinking of Ram Vilas Paswan, who was personally close to the major leaders of the Emergency like Raj Narayan, Karpoori Thakur and Satyendra Narayan Sinha. There is a chapter in this book where Chirag Paswan tells about his father and how his father always taught him not to let the family and clan be harmed. But the irony is that just a few months after his death, there was a rebellion against his own son in the Lok Janshakti Party. And that rebellion was done by Ram Vilas Paswan's brother Pashupati Kumar Paras himself. The LJP party broke up in this dispute between uncle and nephew. Chirag had said that he made a lot of efforts to reconcile with his uncle following the ideals of his father but things did not work out.

After his father's death, Chirag expressed his loneliness many times

After the death of his father, Chirag has expressed his loneliness many times that he has no blessings of any elder except his mother. But with the teachings of Ram Vilas that "a fish's child is not taught to swim, it learns to swim on its own", Chirag is a major partner in the NDA government with a new energy and five MPs in the Lok Sabha elections 2024.