"JD(U) leadership should have followed the party constitution and issued a show cause notice to me seeking an explanation about my meeting with Modi before taking whatever action they desired to take," he told reporters here after arriving from Ahmedabad today.
"But all these norms were conveniently ignored as the JD(U) leadership summarily suspended me from the party for meeting Modi," Paswan, who represented the Mohania assembly seat from Rohtas district, said.
He, however, appeared to be impressed with Modi's persona and said it was not for nothing that the youths of the country have been rooting for him to be the next Prime Minister.
Asked about his assessment of the leadership qualities of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Gujarat counterpart, he said that there was a world of difference between the two leaders, but refused to elaborate any further.
Paswan, a minister in the Nitish Kumar government during the NDA-I, had turned a dissident after he was ignored in the ministry in the NDA-II by the Chief Minister and had heaped scorn on the leadership on a number of occasions in the past.
His meeting with Modi yesterday embarrassed JD(U) leadership which suspended him for six years.