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Before the Bihar Assembly elections, a big deadlock has arisen regarding the distribution of seats of the Grand Alliance. According to sources, Lalu Prasad Yadav is not ready to give more than 50 seats to Congress, whereas Congress wants to keep its hold on some important seats strong. Meanwhile, the party has activated former Union Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Prasad Singh, who is in touch with Lalu Prasad Yadav to resolve the matter.
According to sources, Akhilesh Singh had met Lalu last evening and he will meet him today also to discuss the issue. It is believed that Akhilesh Singh will try to find a solution to the seat formula for the grand alliance. According to sources, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav may go to Delhi late today evening. He is likely to meet Rahul Gandhi. In this meeting, the upcoming election strategy of the Grand Alliance and issues of seat sharing are likely to be discussed.
Previous record of seat sharing in Grand Alliance
The 2020 assembly elections were contested by the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) along with RJD and Congress. At that time RJD was given 144 seats, Congress 70 seats, CPI-ML 19, CPI 6 and CPM 4 seats.
Then Mukesh Sahni came out of the press conference on the day of announcement of seat sharing of the alliance and joined the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had given him 11 seats of its quota.
Now Mukesh Sahni has been involved in the Grand Alliance for a long time. Apart from this, Hemant Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Pashupati Paras’ Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP) are also ready to join the alliance if they get seats.
What is the mathematics of seats?
According to RJD’s formula, the party will contest elections on 138 seats this time, which is 6 seats less than in 2020. Congress will have to reduce its share from 70 to 57 seats. CPI-ML will also have to be satisfied with 18 seats instead of 19.
Mukesh Sahni has been proposed to contest 16 seats. CPI and CPM can be given 6 and 4 seats respectively as before. Out of the remaining 4 seats, 2 seats each are likely to be given to JMM and RLJP.
There is also a discussion that Lalu Yadav has asked Pashupati Paras to merge his party with RJD to include him in the alliance. Paras is worried about his son contesting the elections, where currently RJD’s Ramvriksh Sada is the MLA.
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