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30/08/2010
Ram Vilas, Lalu open to Muslim deputy CM Patna,(BiharTimes): LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan and RJD president, Lalu Prasad Yadav, said that they were open to appointment of a Muslim deputy chief minister if the RJD-LJP combine comes to power. Their announcement came following the criticism from the ruling NDA and Congress for projecting Ram Vilas Paswan’s brother Pashupati Kumar Paras as candidate for deputy chief ministership, Ram Vilas said his party and the RJD have remained irrevocably committed to the uplift of the Muslims in Bihar and elsewhere and therefore he is personally open to subscribe to any suggestion for making a Muslim as nominee for post of the deputy chief minister. RJD president Lalu Prasad also reiterated Paswan's statement saying that the alliance was open to proposal of projecting a Muslim as a deputy chief minister.
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