NDA seals Bihar deal: BJP to contest extra seats than JDU in a primary | Lok Sabha Elections News

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Monday introduced its seat-sharing components for Bihar forward of the Lok Sabha (LS) elections, allocating seats to 2 events that weren’t a part of its alliance within the state 5 years again.

The seat-sharing components additionally underlined the modified equations in Bihar because the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) now the lead accomplice within the alliance, and can contest yet one more seat than ally Janata Dal (United).

Of the 40 constituencies, the BJP will contest 17 seats, the JDU 16, Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) 5, and Hindustan Awam Morcha (HAM) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) one every.

Since the JDU’s inception in 2003, it contested extra seats than the BJP in 2004 and 2009. It modified in 2019, when after the JDU returned to the NDA, they contested 17 seats every. The newest deal conveyed that the 2 events have been now on par in Bihar for the LS polls. In the 2020 Assembly polls in Bihar, Chirag Paswan-led LJP fielded its candidates towards the JDU, whereas remaining inside the NDA, contributing to the sharp drop within the Nitish Kumar-led get together’s tally. The BJP’s strike price turned out to be considerably higher than the JDU’s.

According to the 2024 LS polls seat-sharing components, former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi-led HAM will contest the Gaya seat and Upendra Kushwaha-led RLM will struggle within the Karakat seat. The JDU received Gaya and Karakat constituencies in 2019. Manjhi was the runnerup on the Gaya seat and Kushwaha on the Karakat seat in 2019.

The NDA allotted 5 seats to the Chirag Paswan-led faction of the LJP, brushing apart the claims of his uncle and Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras, the sitting Lok Sabha member from Hajipur.

In return for ceding its sitting seats of Gaya and Karakat, the JDU will get to contest the Sheohar Lok Sabha constituency, which the BJP’s Rama Devi received in 2019. Rama Devi, who will flip 75 in May, represented Sheohar in 1998, 2009, 2014, and 2019.

In 2019, the BJP and JDU contested 17 every and Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP contested six. The three NDA allies received 39 of the 40 seats, profitable all their respective seats barring the JDU, which misplaced the Kishanganj seat to the Congress. Kishanganj is among the 16 that the JDU will contest within the 2024 LS polls.

The BJP, regardless of leaving Sheohar to the JDU, will nonetheless contest 17 seats, because it did in 2019. The addition to its checklist is Nawada, which the LJP had received in 2019.

Chirag Paswan-led LJP (Ram Vilas) will contest 5 seats — Vaishali, Samastipur, Khagaria, Hajipur, and Jamui — as a substitute of the six that Ram Vilas Paswan-led united LJP received 5 years again.

Paras, who leads the LJP’s faction, was eager to contest the Hajipur seat, which his elder brother, Ram Vilas Paswan, represented eight instances since 1977. The Paras-led faction of the LJP is exploring an alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal-led ‘grand alliance’, sources stated. At the press convention on the BJP headquarters right here, Bihar BJP chief Samrat Choudhary, nonetheless, maintained that talks have been occurring with Paras.

First Published: Mar 18 2024 | 9:25 PM IST

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