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Chirag Paswan

Indian politician (born 1982)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Chirag Paswan is an Indian politician and former actor who is serving as the 19th Minister of Food Processing Industries since June 2024. He is the 1st president of the Lok Janshakti Party since 2021, 2nd president of the Lok Janshakti Party from 2019 to 2021 and a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from the Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency since 2024. He is the son of late Member of Parliament and Union Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Chirag Paswan” is indian politician (born 1982). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Chirag, Paswan and Indian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 2021, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Chirag, Paswan and Indian is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2024, 2021 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chirag Paswan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.