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Bihar Politics: Before the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, the Congress has formally decided to contest elections under the ‘India’ alliance. The decision was taken in a high level meeting held in New Delhi on Tuesday (March 25) under the chairmanship of party president Mallikarjun Kharge. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, prominent leader of Bihar Congress and other national officials were present in the meeting. The main objective of this meeting was to clarify the status of the alliance in Bihar and decide the strategy of the upcoming election.
After the meeting, Bihar Congress President Rajesh Kumar addressed the media and confirmed the party’s decision. He said, ‘The Congress will contest elections completely with the India alliance in Bihar. Our main goal is to defeat the BJP -led alliance. The BJP is our biggest political rival in Bihar and we will put full strength to defeat it. He also clarified that the grand alliance in Bihar is completely united and there is no confusion or differences like other states. The Congress believes that to exclude BJP in Bihar, all opposition parties will have to form a strong strategy together.
Discussion on seat sharing and Chief Minister’s post continues to continue
When he was questioned about the seat sharing, Rajesh Kumar said that it is too early to discuss it. He said, ‘When the election comes close, the leaders of the coalition will jointly formulate a concrete strategy and a final decision will be taken on the seat sharing.’
At the same time, when the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) questioned Tejashwi Yadav as the Chief Ministerial candidate for the Grand Alliance was questioned, the Congress leaders indicated that the final decision will be taken only after discussion among all the coalition partners. Congress in -charge Krishna Allavaru said that the decision of the Chief Minister candidate will be taken after the meeting of all the parties of ‘India’ alliance ‘.
Decision will be made soon regarding new colleagues
It was also discussed in the meeting whether Prashant Kishore’s Jan Suraj Party will be included in the India alliance. On this, Congress leaders did not give any direct reply and said that ‘a decision will be taken only after proper discussion’. The role of Pappu Yadav was also questioned, on which the Congress leaders said that the India alliance stands with all those who are against the BJP and are struggling to save democracy. Many prominent leaders of Bihar Congress were present in this meeting, including former state president Akhilesh Singh, former ministers Ramjatan Sinha and Shakeel Ahmed.