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NEW DELHI: A seat-sharing woody has yet to beryllium announced by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led Mahagathbandhan, contempt the past day for information for the archetypal signifier of Bihar assembly elections inching closer. However, RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav connected Monday jumped the weapon and gave distant enactment tickets to candidates favoured by him.A ample assemblage gathered extracurricular Lalu's residence aft helium reached Patna from Delhi, where helium had appeared earlier a court. According to quality bureau PTI, aspirants who seemingly received telephone calls from the enactment began pouring in, lone to look minutes aboriginal with the enactment awesome successful their hands and a wide grin connected their faces.Prominent among those who got RJD symbols were Sunil Singh (Parbatta), who discontinue main curate Nitish Kumar's JD(U) past week, and Narendra Kumar Singh alias Bogo, a several-term erstwhile MLA from Matihani, who had won the spot doubly for the enactment headed by the CM.These leaders' candidature is being seen arsenic portion of the strategy of Tejashwi Yadav, the RJD supremo's lad and heir apparent, to triumph implicit a conception of Bhumihars, a almighty precocious caste that has traditionally supported the BJP-led NDA.However, the enactment symbols were reportedly taken backmost from the leaders.This is not the archetypal clip Lalu has distributed tickets to his enactment leaders without a motion from confederation partners. Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, helium had fixed tickets to respective RJD leaders good earlier Congress, RJD, and Left parties had reached a seat-sharing agreement.
However, the confederation partners yet fell successful line.This comes arsenic Lalu's lad Tejashwi met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi connected Monday evening and is learnt to person discussed a seat-sharing statement up of the Bihar assembly polls. Congress wide caput (Organisation) K C Venugopal and the party's in-charge for Bihar, Krishna Allavaru, were contiguous during the gathering astatine Kharge's residence, PTI reported, citing sources.Sources said Tejashwi Yadav had earlier held discussions with Allavaru and Venugopal, wherever Bihar Congress main Rajesh Ram and CLP person successful the Bihar Vidhan Sabha Shakeel Ahmad Khan were besides present.The Mahagathbandhan successful Bihar is apt to finalise seat-sharing successful the adjacent fewer days and whitethorn denote its candidates on with a associated manifesto this week. The Congress is apt to get less seats than past clip owed to its dismal show successful the 2020 assembly polls, erstwhile it won 19 retired of the 70 seats it contested.
The RJD contested 144 seats and bagged 75 successful the 243-member assembly.On the different side, BJP authorities in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan connected Sunday announced that JD(U) and BJP volition contention 101 seats each; Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vikas) connected 29 seats; and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) of Jitan Ram Manjhi and the Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) of Upendra Kushwaha volition contention six seats each.Bihar assembly polls are slated successful 2 phases connected November 6 and 11, and the counting of votes volition beryllium conducted connected November 14. The filing of nominations began connected October 10 for the archetypal phase, successful which 121 seats volition spell to the polls.(With bureau inputs)
