INDIA bloc announces seat-sharing agreement for Bihar, RJD to contest 26 seats
INDIA bloc on Friday announced the seat-sharing for Bihar at a joint press conference in Patna.
As per the agreement, RJD will contest 26 Lok Sabha seats out of 40, the highest by any political party in the state in the upcoming general election. The Congress will contest nine seats, the CPI (ML) will contest three seats and the CPI and CPI (M) will contest one seat each.
«We have arrived at a unanimous decision, demonstrating a cohesiveness that you may not find in the NDA,» RJD leader Manoj Jha told media persons.
The nine seats allocated to the Congress are Kishanganj, Bhagalpur, Katihar, Muzaffarpur, Sasaram, Patna Sahib, Maharajganj, Samastipur and West Champaran. In 2019, the party won the lone seat of Kishanganj. In Katihar, Congress leader Tariq Anwar had lost by a thin margin.
The Congress couldn't get Purnia seat, which the party was demanding for Pappu Yadav, who recently merged his party with the Congress. After the announcement, Yadav said he would work for the victory of the INDIA alliance in Bihar.
Asked about not leaving Purnia for Pappu Yadav, Jha said it was an alliance between the parties and not individuals.
The RJD has also got one seat in Jharkhand, Palamu, as part of the deal. It has kept with itself the Saran seat, from where party leader Lalu Prasad's daughter Rohini Acharya is likely to be fielded against the BJP candidate Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
The CPI (ML) will contest three seats — Arrah, Karakat and Nalanda. The CPI has been allocated the Begusarai seat while the CPI (M) has got
