Patna Nov 28 PTI Rival factions of the Lok Janshakti Party on Sunday held separate functions here to celebrate the 21st foundation day of the party which came apart less than a year after the death of its founder Ram Vilas PaswanThe late Union ministers son and heir apparent Chirag Paswan held a function in the sprawling Bapu Sabhagar auditorium where he reached in a huge procession in a virtual show of strength aimed at asserting that desertion by LJP MPs notwithstanding he enjoyed the support of the foot-soldiersJust a few kilometres away Chirags rebellious uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras and renegade cousin Prince Raj attended a function held at the Wheeler Road office of the undivided LJP which the breakaway faction has come to occupy post the splitLJP was floated on this date in 2000 by Ram Vilas Paswan who was then a member of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet and had got elected to Parliament on a ticket of the JDU which was then a faction of the undivided Janata Dal and later got merged with Nitish Kumars Samata PartyThe Election Commission has frozen the LJPs well-known bungalow symbol after the splitChirags faction has been recognised as LJP Ram Vilas while the one headed by Paras is called Rashtriya LJP and both has been allotted new symbols PTI NAC SOM SOM