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Union Minister and founder of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas Paswan passed away on Thursday following illness. He was 74. Chirag Paswan, MP, paid condolences to his father. "Papa, you are no more in this world now but I know that wherever you are, you are with me. Miss you Papa," Chirag Paswan said in a tweet. Ram Vilas Paswan was Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the Narendra Modi government. He was also a minister in the previous NDA government. He had undergone heart surgery in a Delhi hospital. Paswan was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1977 on a Janata Party ticket from Hajipur in Bihar.

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Rare pictures of late Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan

Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister of Labour and Welfare and Member of Parliament from Janata Dal Party at a party meeting, in Maharashtra during 1990.

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The Bandit Queen fame and the most wanted female Dacoit- Phoolan Devi ti-eying rakhi thread on the wrist of Politician Ram Vilas Paswan (Center) sitting with his wife Reena Paswan on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan at her residence in New Delhi on July 22, 1994 after her release from Tihar Jail.

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Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister of Labour and Welfare and Member of Parliament from Janata Dal Party is being greeted by his fans and party members as he arrives, in Maharashtra during 1990.

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Chief Minister of Assam Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, Union Minister of Labour and Welfare and Member of Parliament Ram Vilas Paswan and Upendranath Brahma Bodoland political leader at a jovial mood in Delhi during 1990.

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Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister of Labour and Welfare, Member of Parliament and Janata Dal Party leader addressing the masses, in Delhi during 1990.

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Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Union Communications Minister Ram Vilas Paswan at a meeting in Delhi on December 15, 2000.

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Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi and Lok Janshakti Party leader Ram Vilas Pasvan at an event in Mumbai on May 17, 2003.

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Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) president Ram Vilas Paswan with wife Reena Sharma Paswan at a rally in New Delhi on March 27, 2003.

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Ram Vilas Paswan, Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJP) leader and former Union minister (right), converses with film actor Raza Murad, during a meeting with cinema stars, in Mumbai, on May 21, 2002.

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Senior Congress leader Balram Jakhar and Union Minister of Communications, Ram Vilas Paswan attend an 'Iftar' party in New Delhi on December 23, 1999.

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