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- In the Mahagatbandhan, RJD, Congress, and the Left parties are locked in endless haggling for the 243 seats.
- The NDA — comprising the BJP, JD(U), LJP (RV), and smaller allies such as HAM(S) — continues to wrestle with its internal seat-sharing tensions
- Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj party remains a wildcard. Analysts believe it could eat into the Mahagathbandhan’s vote share.
It’s open season in Bihar’s political marketplace with polls set to be held on November 6 and 11, and the seat-sharing circus within both the Mahagathbandhan and the NDA doesn’t seem to be dying down. Every party fancies itself deserving of a larger slice, while the old guards do not want to give up their share.
Within the Mahagathbandhan, RJD, Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, and assorted allies, are locked in endless haggling for the 243 seats. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), having fought 144 seats in 2020 and bagged 75, now insists on contesting at least 134 this time. The Congress, which fared modestly with 19 wins out of 70 last time, is eyeing 60–65 seats, are likely to make do with 55. As of now 40 seats have been agreed upon.
The Left parties, which includes CPI-ML, CPI and CPI(M) with their relatively better strike rate, want 35 seats instead of the 29 they had previously. They had won 16 of the 29 seats in the last election.
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Mukesh Sahani’s Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), which has no MLAs as they all moved to BJP after the last elections, is reportedly demanding at least 30 seats from the Mahagathbandhan, and could get at most 10 to 15. The Left parties have responded by turning up their own demands. And as things stand, the word on the ground is that NDA is trying to lure Sahani over by offering seats which he has a better chance of winning.
Can Electoral Bargaining By Smaller NDA Allies Make The Larger Stakeholders Uneasy?
BY Md Asghar Khan |
