PATNA: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav has been endorsed as the face of the multi-party coalition and unanimously chosen as the main ministerial candidate of the opposition alliance in the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, Congress announced on Saturday (October 3).
According to the seat sharing agreement agreed by the alliance partners ahead of the three-phase elections that will begin on October 28, RJD will compete for 144 seats, while Congress will compete for 70 seats. In particular, the 70 seats that have been awarded to Congress are almost double the ones it had contested in the 2015 assembly elections in alliance with the RJD and JD (U) of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Congress will also present its candidate in the Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat, where a by-vote will take place on November 7. The left-wing parties will compete 29 seats. While the IPC (ML) has been awarded 19 seats, the CPI won 6 and the CPI (M) 4.
Announcing the seat allocation formula in the presence of Congressional leaders CPI (ML), CPI and CPI (M), Tejashwi said his party will accommodate former alliance partner Vikashheel Insaan Party (VIP) and JMM to his ally to join Jharkhand from their quota. of 144 seats in the assembly of 243 people.
Tejashwi promised to evict the government led by Nitish Kumar, whom Congress leader Avinash Pandey accused in his speech of hijacking the mandate in previous elections.
“All components of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) have decided to come together as a coalition for the Bihar Assembly elections. Congress, RJD, CPI, CPM and the Vikassheel Insaan party will be part of this alliance under the leadership of RJD. We want May Bihar prosper under Tejashwi Yadav, “Pandey said, ANI reported.
The JD (U) boss had fought in the 2015 elections opposing the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but ended up re-running with the saffron party, Pandey said.
The second and third phases of the election will be held on November 3 and 7. Of 243 electoral districts, 71 will go to the polls in the first phase, whose presentation of nominations will take place between October 1 and October 8.
The disjointed line-up, however, continued in disarray when VIP President Mukesh Sahni, a Bollywood set designer turned politician, announced shortly after the press conference that he would resign from the grand alliance because he did not receive a “respectable offer.” “What is happening to us right now is a stab in the back. I am going out of this alliance and addressing the media on Sunday,” said Mukesh Sahni of the Vikassheel Insaan Party.
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