"Will fulfil whatever responsibility given to me...": Chirag Paswan on being appointed as Minister of Food Processing Industries

New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): Following his appointment as the Minister of Food Processing Industries under the "Modi 3.0" cabinet, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) (Ram Vilas) Chief Chirag Paswan affirmed that he would fulfil whatever responsibility is given to him by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"I will fulfil whatever responsibility has been given to me by the Prime Minister and I have been given the responsibility of a department which I had also mentioned in my vision document... Ours is an agricultural country, so it is very important that the processing, packaging and marketing of what the farmers produce is good... This will not only provide employment opportunities in large numbers in the country, but the future belongs to this department...", Paswan said while speaking to ANI.
"Today is the time of processing, I think it has a huge scope in India and it will contribute greatly to the development of the country", he added.
The portfolios were announced, earlier today, in a press communique by the President's Secretariat a day after the swearing-in of the council of ministers at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The portfolios were allocated on the advice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Chirag Paswan has been appointed as the Minister of Food Processing Industries.
Earlier on Sunday, the LJP (Ram Vilas) Chief was sworn in as a cabinet minister under the third term of the Modi government.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Chirag Paswan won from the Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency.
In the 2014 elections, Chirag Paswan contested from the Jamui Lok Sabha seat. He won the seat, defeating the nearest rival, Sudhansu Shekhar Bhaskar of Rashtriya Janata Dal. Paswan retained his seat in the 2019 elections, defeating his nearest rival, Bhudeo Choudhary.
In the 2024 general election, a total of five LJP (Ram Vilas) MPs won the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar: Veena Devi, Arun Bharti, Shambhavi Choudhary, Rajesh Verma and Chirag Paswan.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA secured 293 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. BJP won 240 seats on its own. In the 543-strong lower house of the Indian parliament, 272 is the minimum majority figure. (ANI)