Congress leaders upset around Bihar seat-sharing deal with RJD
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Patna: The Congress is learnt to be upset about the alleged raw deal it has obtained from Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD in the seat-sharing arrangement in Bihar for the Lok Sabha polls. The RJD has dumped unwinnable seats on the Congress when denying it seats in which it could have improved prospective customers, it has been alleged.The two get-togethers are allies in the Mahagathbandhan that also contains the Still left Front in Bihar, and are also element of the INDIA bloc at the national level.
The Congress has been specified nine of Bihar’s 40 Lok Sabha seats — the similar amount it contested in the 2019 polls. But there are rarely any celebrations.


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“We obtained the seats we did not inquire for. We did not get the kinds we had asked for. We experienced not asked for Patna Sahib or Maharajganj,” Congress leader Nikhil Kumar — a former Delhi Law enforcement main who has also served as Aurangabad MP and governor of Nagaland and Kerala — instructed ThePrint Friday.
He stated the Congress had carried out an impartial survey and discovered 9 seats it would have carried out very well in. “We had our possess examination on the foundation of the composition of constituencies. My parliamentary seat of Aurangabad (Kumar received the 2004 Lok Sabha elections from this constituency) was 1 of them. But my seat hardly matters. The seat-sharing formula will not support the Congress,” he asserted.The prolonged-awaited seat-sharing formula of the INDIA alliance in Bihar was introduced Friday — two days just after the deadline to file nomination papers for the to start with stage of the polls. Voting will acquire location in the condition in all 7 phases, from 19 April to 1 June.The names of the constituencies and the alliance partners who would contest in them have been declared, but the push meeting in Patna Friday came to an abrupt end when journalists questioned questions about the fate of aspiring Congress candidates — Nikhil Kumar from Aurangabad, Kanhaiya Kumar from Begusarai and Rajesh Ranjan, alias Pappu Yadav, from Purnia.Aurangabad goes to the polls in the first period on 19 April. After termed the ‘Chittorgarh of Bihar’ since of the dominance of Rajputs, the seat has been a fiefdom of Nikhil Kumar’s spouse and children. His late father, former Bihar main minister S.N. Sinha, was MP from Aurangabad, and so was Kumar’s late spouse, Shyama Singh.
The BJP has fielded its sitting MP, Sushil Kumar Singh, for the 3rd consecutive time. As an alternative of the Congress’s Kumar, the RJD has fielded its individual candidate, former Janata Dal (United) MLA Abhay Kushwaha.Talks on seat-sharing amongst the Congress and RJD started out in January this calendar year. “I was not in the talks. But I can say those people associated could not encourage the RJD about the party’s (Congress) viewpoints,” Kumar claimed.According to the settlement involving the get-togethers, the RJD will contest on 26 seats, the Congress in 9, the Communist Social gathering of India (Marxist-Leninist) in 3 and the Communist Celebration of India and the Communist Occasion of India (Marxist) in a person every single.The seats allotted to the Congress are Maharajganj, Patna Sahib, Kishanganj, Sasaram (reserved), Katihar, Muzaffarpur, West Champaran, Samastipur and Bhagalpur.
Congress leaders reported that the party does not have “viable” candidates for Patna Sahib, Maharajganj or West Champaran. Former Lok Sabha Speaker and celebration chief Meira Kumar, who was MP from Sasaram, has refused to contest the polls citing to her age.The bash leaders also said they have been interested in a seat in Mithilanchal to lure Maithil Brahmins back into the fold, but the concept was turned down by the RJD.RJD leader and previous deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav has dominated out any reconsideration of the seat allocations.“The talks on seat sharing have been likely on since January and every single depth has been covered,” he reported to mediapersons Friday just after returning from Delhi, asserting that Bihar would generate “unexpected results”.
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The Purnia fiasco
Immediately right after the announcement of the seat-sharing system, there was a revolt of kinds as Pappu Yadav stated he would contest from Purnia and declared that it was his existence mission to re-build the Congress in the state.Yadav was a 3-phrase MP from Purnia in the 1990s and early 2000s as an Unbiased and member of the Samajwadi Get together. He later on joined the RJD and was elected as Madhepura MP on its ticket two times but was expelled from the party in 2015. He then shaped his individual social gathering, which he merged with the Congress last 7 days.The Congress, nonetheless, has indicated it would not give him an formal ticket.
“We are not able to cease him from preventing independently. But we will not be offering him a ticket as it would pressure the alliance with the RJD,” a senior Congress leader instructed ThePrint.The RJD has fielded former JD(U) MLA Bima Bharti from Purnia.(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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