New Delhi: Amid the excitement round seat-sharing inside the Opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc, the Congress mentioned lower than a “respectable” variety of seats in Bihar won’t solely have an effect on the occasion but in addition all the ruling ‘Mahagathbandhan’, together with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), information company PTI reported.
Speculations are rife that the grand previous occasion has been requested to accept no more than 4 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar.
“The Mahagathbandhan as an entire, together with the JD(U), will undergo if the Congress fights solely 4 seats, although it’s not our case that we be given 9 simply because we had contested that many in 2019,” PTI quoted Bihar Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh as saying.
In line with studies, the JD(U) has requested to maintain 17 seats for itself, prefer it did within the final basic elections. The JD(U) had bagged 16 seats and was defeated in a single. A detailed aide of CM Nitish Kumar made it clear that for the JD(U), a quantity lower than 16, which is its present power in Lok Sabha, is out of the query.
“We now have 16 seats. On these, the query of a declare or any confusion shouldn’t come up. No matter often is the demand of the Congress, it ought to convey the identical to the RJD. We will likely be sitting throughout the desk with the RJD for last discussions on seat sharing,” PTI quoted JD(U) nationwide basic secretary Sanjay Kumar Jha as saying.
The JD(U) chief’s declare comes within the wake of a basic consensus that will have been reached inside the Mahagathbandhan that for the reason that Nitish Kumar’s occasion was a brand new entrant, the RJD be allowed to barter on behalf of the smaller companions.
Nonetheless, deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav has denied having taken up the difficulty with CM Kumar, PTI reported.
“He’s the CM and I’m the deputy. There may be any variety of points for us to debate. Don’t worry an excessive amount of about seat-sharing. We are going to let you already know in the end,” Tejashwi had earlier instructed the media.