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The opposition parties in Bihar has finalised the seat-sharing agreement for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha election, with the RJD contesting nearly two-thirds of the state's 40 parliamentary constituencies.

Mahagathbandhan announces LS seat-sharing for Bihar; RJD to contest 26, Cong 9

The opposition parties in Bihar has finalised the seat-sharing agreement for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha election, with the RJD contesting nearly two-thirds of the state's 40 parliamentary constituencies.

The RJD-led Mahagathbandhan in Bihar on Friday announced its formula for seat-sharing, with Lalu Prasad's party laying claim on nearly two-thirds of the state's 40 parliamentary constituencies, virtually steamrolling allies - the Congress and three Left parties.
The RJD will be contesting 26 seats, nine more than it had fought in 2019 when it drew a blank. The Congress has got nine seats, as many as it had contested in the last elections, followed by CPI(ML) Liberation (three) and CPI and CPI(M) (one each).
The belated announcement, coming a day after filing of nomination papers for the first phase of Lok Sabha polls was over, was made at a press conference here addressed by RJD national spokesman and Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Kumar Jha, state Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh and state-level leaders of CPI(ML) Liberation, CPI and CPI(M).
Tejashwi Yadav, the Mahagathbandhan's leader in the state legislature, was scheduled to address the press conference but remained conspicuous by his absence.
Jha said names of candidates would be announced soon and claimed: "We have arrived at a unanimous decision, demonstrating a cohesiveness that you may not find in the NDA. We will defeat them at the hustings".
Notably, the RJD had fielded its candidates for the four seats of Gaya, Aurangabad, Jamui and Nawada, which go to polls in the first phase, much to the annoyance of its allies, particularly the Congress which wanted to give ticket to former MP Nikhil Kumar.
Moreover, CPI and CPI(M) have already announced their candidates for Begusarai and Khagaria seats.
According to the seat-sharing formula, the RJD has also wrested from the Congress Purnia, a seat the latter has been contesting in the past few Lok Sabha polls.
Recently, Lalu Prasad, the RJD president, gave party ticket for the seat to JD(U) turncoat Bima Bharti, stopping short of making a formal announcement.
The Congress had last week inducted Pappu Yadav, a three-term former MP from Purnea, whose wife is also a Rajya Sabha MP of the party. Yadav had been hopeful of getting the ticket from the seat claiming that an assurance to the effect was given to him by Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi.
There were murmurs that Prasad, whose "blessings" Yadav had sought before he went to Delhi and merged his Jan Adhikar Party with the Congress, was suggesting that the former Purnea MP try his luck from Madhepura, which he had won on an RJD ticket in 2014, or Supaul which his wife had represented more than once.
However, that option, too, seems closed as both seats have been claimed for itself by the RJD and it remains to be seen what is going to be the next move of Yadav who has been dropping hints that he will not flinch from fighting as an Independent from Purnea if the need arose.
Among the seats given to the Congress are Kishanganj, Bihar's lone Muslim-majority constituency that the party has been winning for some time, and adjoining Katihar where senior leader Tariq Anwar lost by a thin margin in 2019, having won in 2014 on an NCP ticket.
Other seats given to Congress include Patna Sahib, where the BJP has been seemingly invincible, Bhagalpur, where party MLA Ajeet Sharma wanted to field Bollywood actress daughter Neha Sharma, who has refused, and reserved constituency Sasaram, a bastion of late Deputy Prime Minister Jagjivan Ram, whose daughter and former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, has won the seat a few times but reportedly excused herself this time on account of old age.
Other seats assigned to the Congress are Muzaffarpur, Samastipur, West Champaran and Maharajganj.
The CPI(ML) Liberation has been given Nalanda, a pocket borough of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose JD(U) has had an uninterrupted run on the seat for decades. The Left party has also been given Arrah, where the sitting BJP MP is Union minister RK Singh, and Karakat, which the NDA has assigned to former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Morcha.
However, the RJD has denied the CPI(ML) Liberation Siwan, where the Left party has for long been involved in a bloody feud with late strongman Mohammed Shahabuddin. Having fielded Shahabuddin's widow Hina Shahab in the last two general elections, without success, the RJD is now understood to have given up on her and looking for other candidates.
Hina Shahab has, meanwhile, received support from Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM which has said it will campaign for her if she contested as an Independent or on ticket of "a like-minded party".
The RJD has also kept with itself Saran, formerly represented by Lalu Prasad, where his Singapore-based daughter Rohini Acharya is likely to make her debut. Also in the RJD kitty is Pataliputra, where his eldest daughter Misa Bharti may again try her luck after tasting defeat two times on the trot.
A high-decibel contest seems on the cards in Hajipur, where the RJD will be challenging Chirag Paswan's bid to claim his late father Ram Vilas Paswan's political legacy, amid fears that estranged uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, the sitting MP, could play spoilsport.
RJD will also contest Munger, which it seeks to wrest from former JD(U) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh "Lalan". The party has given ticket to the wife of gangster Ashok Mahto for the seat.
Other RJD seats are Buxar, Banka, Valmiki Nagar, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Sitamarhi, Vaishali, Gopalganj, Ujiyarpur, Darbhanga, Madhubani, Jhanjharpur and Araria.&nbsp;

BJP would be wiped out in the 2024 elections: Lalu Yadav at Mahagathbandan rally in Bihar

Both BJP and RSS are &ldquo;against reservation&rdquo; and are trying to change the Constitution and end reservation, Prasad alleged.

In his first major speech after recovering from a kidney transplant operation, RJD Supremo Lalu Prasad Saturday launched a frontal attack on his old rival the BJP, alleging the right-wing party was trying to divide the country on caste and religious lines.
The BJP and RSS are against the country&rsquo;s minorities, the former chief minister of Bihar claimed in a virtual speech relayed from his Delhi residence to the rally of the `Mahagathbandhan&rsquo; or Grand Alliance of which RJD is a constituent.
&ldquo;The BJP and RSS are against minorities and weaker sections of the society ... We (the Grand alliance) will wipe out BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha and 2025 assembly polls," a frail-looking Prasad, who recently returned to the country earlier this month after a successful kidney transplant surgery in Singapore, said.
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Both BJP and RSS are &ldquo;against reservation&rdquo; and are trying to change the Constitution and end reservation, Prasad alleged.
&ldquo;Our fight is with the ideology of RSS. BJP is following the instructions of RSS,&rdquo; he claimed.

Invoking Hindu deities, the huge poster outside RJD's office in Patna showed Nitish Kumar as leader of the Mahagathbandhan defeating the NDA led alliance by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2024 elections

Patna: Row after Nitish Kumar as 'Lord Ram', PM Modi as 'Ravana' shown in hoarding outside RJD office

Invoking Hindu deities, the huge poster outside RJD's office in Patna showed Nitish Kumar as leader of the Mahagathbandhan defeating the NDA led alliance by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2024 elections

In Bihar, Hindu deities were invoked to predict BJP's loss in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in the latest poster war.
On January 14, a huge poster outside RJD's office in Patna showed Nitish Kumar as leader of the Mahagathbandhan defeating the NDA led alliance by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The poster divided into three columns described how Lord Ram defeated Ravana in Ramayana and Lord Krishna defeated Kansa in Mahabharata.&nbsp;
The poster's last column showed the Grand Alliance, apparently led by Nitish Kumar, defeating PM Modi in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The latest poster controversy comes days after Bihar Education Minister, Chandrashekhar stirred a row over his comment on the religious poem Ramcharitamanas
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"The chief minister has been saying, for quite a while, that the future belongs to Tejashwi ji and youngsters like him" said Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, one of the closest aides of Nitish Kumar

Bihar: Will Nitish Kumar pass the baton to Tejashwi Yadav?

"The chief minister has been saying, for quite a while, that the future belongs to Tejashwi ji and youngsters like him" said Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, one of the closest aides of Nitish Kumar

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday dropped further hints that he was looking forward to passing on the mantle to his young deputy Tejashwi Yadav, leaders emerging from a meeting of legislators of the ruling 'Mahagathbandhan' said.
The septuagenarian JD(U) supremo, once again, ruled himself out as a prime ministerial candidate for the next Lok Sabha polls even as he maintained that a "united opposition" could defeat the Narendra Modi-led BJP in 2024.
"The chief minister pointed towards Tejashwi ji and said he is the leader of the future, under whose leadership the 2025 assembly polls in the state would be fought," said Mahboob Alam, the legislature party leader of the CPI(ML) Liberation which supports the government from outside.
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He also said "we are of the view that it will benefit the grand alliance which is fighting the communal forces represented by the BJP. Tejashwi ji is a young and energetic leader".
Notably, Yadav, the younger son of RJD's founding president Lalu Prasad, had steered the 'Mahagathbandhan', which then did not have the chief minister on its side, to an impressive electoral performance in 2020 assembly polls in which the NDA could barely scrape through.
After dumping the BJP in August this year, Kumar, whose love-hate relationship with Lalu Prasad is the stuff of legend, had been asserting that he was done with the long association that he has had with the saffron party.
"The chief minister has been saying, for quite a while, that the future belongs to Tejashwi ji and youngsters like him. He had said so yesterday in Nalanda where I, too, was present. He said it again today," said Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, one of the closest aides of Kumar, who also holds key portfolios in the state cabinet.
Chaudhary was referring to Kumar's speech on the previous day when the latter had inaugurated a dental hospital in his home district and spoken about backing Tejashwi Yadav.
Yadav, however, showed characteristic composure when approached for comments by journalists.
"At present, we are running the government together. And we need to concentrate on the principal challenge before us, and that is the 2024 Lok Sabha polls," said Yadav.
Chaudhary also said that at the legislators' meet, Kumar "made it clear again that he was not in the race for prime ministership. But he still feels the BJP can be defeated in 2024 if the opposition stands united. And he will continue to work in that direction".

Ahead of the October 30 Bihar bypolls, Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday confirmed the end of its alliance with the Congress. Slamming Congress' poor assembly &nbsp;poll performance, Lalu questioned if he was expected to give seats to Congress to lose.
Meanwhile, the Congress too has announced the end of the 'Mahagathbandhan', stating that it will contest on all 40 Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 elections.
The fight began when RJD refused to cede a single seat to ally Congress stating 'it won't be able to win any'.
The RJD&rsquo;s decision to field its candidate from Kusheshwar Asthan, a seat from where the Congress had contested in the 2020 assembly polls, has upset the national party. The national party has accused RJD of conspiring with BJP against it. &nbsp;
The Congress&rsquo; poor show in the assembly polls compared to a much better strike rate of the RJD prompted some leaders of the Bihar party to question the national party&rsquo;s role in the alliance.
The RJD believes that the Congress had been given more number of seats than its real strength in the state.

Bihar assembly bypolls: RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav confirms Mahagathbandhan split in Bihar

Ahead of the October 30 Bihar bypolls, Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday confirmed the end of its alliance with the Congress

RJD vs Congress: Lalu Yadav confirms Mahagathbandhan split

//RJD-Congress split ahead of Bihar bypolls on October 30
//RJD&nbsp;presided Lalu&nbsp;Yadav&nbsp;confirms end of alliance with Congress
//Bypolls:&nbsp;RJD refused to cede a single seat to ally Congress&nbsp;
//'Am I expected to give seats to Congress to lose?', Lalu&nbsp;hits out
//Congress has accused RJD of conspiring with BJP against it
//Congress' role in&nbsp;'Mahagathbandhan' questioned after poor show in polls
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The RJD&rsquo;s decision to field its candidate from Kusheshwar Asthan, a seat from where the Congress had contested in the 2020 assembly polls, has upset the national party.

Ahead of the October 30 Bihar bypolls, Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday confirmed the end of its alliance with the Congress.
Slamming Congress' poor assembly poll performance, Lalu questioned if he was expected to give seats to Congress to lose.
Meanwhile, the Congress too has announced the end of the 'Mahagathbandhan', stating that it will contest on all 40 Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 elections.
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The fight began when RJD refused to cede a single seat to ally Congress stating 'it won't be able to win any'.
The RJD&rsquo;s decision to field its candidate from Kusheshwar Asthan, a seat from where the Congress had contested in the 2020 assembly polls, has upset the national party. The national party has accused RJD of conspiring with BJP against it. &nbsp;
The Congress&rsquo; poor show in the assembly polls compared to a much better strike rate of the RJD prompted some leaders of the Bihar party to question the national party&rsquo;s role in the alliance.
The RJD believes that the Congress had been given more number of seats than its real strength in the state.

Bihar polls: Sonia Gandhi slams state govt in video message

Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a video message urged&nbsp;Bihar people to vote against the state govt, said&nbsp;their&nbsp;&lsquo;actions and intentions are questionable&rsquo;.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi released a video message a day before Bihar goes to the polls for the first phase on October 28, urging Bihar people to vote against the government whose &lsquo;actions and intentions are questionable&rsquo;. Sonia Gandhi criticized the state government for &lsquo;neither saying nor doing any good&rsquo;. &lsquo;Labourers are helpless, farmers are anxious and youth are disappointed&rsquo; Sonia highlighted the plight of the people in the video. Rahul Gandhi shared the message on Twitter championing for a change in Bihar which can be brought in by the Mahagathbandhan alliance. Congress, Rashtriyana Janata Dal, and three left parties are a part of the Grand Alliance with Tejashwi Yadav as the chief ministerial candidate of Mahagathbandhan.

'Ashamed of your parents?': minister's swipe at Tejashwi

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday trained guns on RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav asking him why his parents Lalu and Rabri are missing from party's posters?

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday trained guns on RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav asking him why his parents Lalu and Rabri are missing from party's posters? Taking a jibe at Tejashwi promise of "New Bihar", Prasad asked the Mahagathbandhan's CM face if he was ashamed of his parents who ruled the state for 15 years. He further rubbed it in asking if Tejashwi was worried that faces of Lalu and Rabri would remind people of the lawlessness during the RJD rule?

Tejashwi Yadav releases RJD manifesto, promises 10 lakh govt jobs

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav&nbsp;released party's manifesto, promises 10 lakh&nbsp;jobs.

Tejashwi Yadav releases RJD's&nbsp;manifesto
Tejashwi&nbsp;promises 10 lakh&nbsp;govt jobs
Tejashwi:&nbsp;BJP-JDU&nbsp;fooling people with job promise
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Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav, who is the chief ministerial candidate of Mahagathbandhan, released the party&rsquo;s election manifesto on Saturday as battle heats up in Bihar ahead of the assembly polls. Releasing the manifesto, Tejashwi&nbsp;promised 10 lakh&nbsp;government jobs.&nbsp;
After NDA came under fire for the vaccine promise ahead of the state polls&nbsp;Yadav took a swipe at their employment pledge. Criticizing JDU chief and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Tejashwi questioned how could BJP provide 19 lakh jobs if its alliance in the state have failed to provide employment opportunities all along.

Ex-Bihar CM's party to re-join NDA ahead of Bihar polls

Days after announcing its split from the Mahagathbandhan&nbsp;in Bihar, former chief minister Jitan&nbsp;Ram Manji's&nbsp;Hindustani Awam&nbsp;Morcha&nbsp;has returned to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance. &nbsp;This crucial decision comes ahead of the state assembly elections in Bihar&nbsp;in October-November this year. He had walked out of the Grand Alliance on August 20 claiming that the other alliance members were not willing to form a committee to discuss seat sharing. Manjhi&nbsp;however told reporters on Wednesday that he hasn't held seat sharing discussion with Chief Minister Nitish&nbsp;Kumar yet. Manjhi&nbsp;had left the NDA&nbsp;to join the opposition alliance in 2017 after Nitish&nbsp;Kumar's&nbsp;return to NDA.&nbsp;

Days after announcing its split from the Mahagathbandhan&nbsp;in Bihar, former chief minister Jitan&nbsp;Ram Manji's&nbsp;Hindustani Awam&nbsp;Morcha&nbsp;has returned to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance. &nbsp;This crucial decision comes ahead of the state assembly elections in Bihar&nbsp;in October-November this year. He had walked out of the Grand Alliance on August 20 claiming that the other alliance members were not willing to form a committee to discuss seat sharing. Manjhi&nbsp;however told reporters on Wednesday that he hasn't held seat sharing discussion with Chief Minister Nitish&nbsp;Kumar yet. Manjhi&nbsp;had left the NDA&nbsp;to join the opposition alliance in 2017 after Nitish&nbsp;Kumar's&nbsp;return to NDA.&nbsp;

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