AMN / NEW DELHI

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MP Ram Chandra Paswan passed away at a hospital in Delhi today. He was the brother of Union Minister and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan.

57 years oldleader represented Bihar’s Samastipur Lok Sabha seat in Parliament.

He was admitted at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi after he suffered a major heart attack on Thursday.

He was a four-term MP and was first elected to Lok Sabha in 1999. In the recently held general elections, he defeated his Congress rival Dr Ashok Kumar by a margin of 2.5 lakh votes.