The left-wing parties, which fought in the Bihar Assembly election with Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) as part of the grand alliance, are leading 18 of the 29 seats they contested.
According to the agreement to share seats between the constituents of the grand alliance for the election of the Bihar Assembly, the CPI (M) received four seats, the CPI obtained six and the CPI-ML (Liberation) 19.
These included some seats that Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) had won in the 2015 Assembly elections.
According to the Election Commission of India (ECI) website, the CPI (M) and CPI led in three seats each, while the CPI-ML (Liberation) led in 12 at 2:55 pm.
In 2010, only the CPI had managed to win one seat in Bihar, while in 2015, the CPI-ML (Liberation) took three seats while the other two left-wing parties were left blank.
“The leaders so far are on the expected line and we hope to catch up in three more seats. This was a different choice. This was more of a popular movement. We bet on young candidates, student leaders, candidates who were part of the farmers’ struggles, people from the working class. That seems to have worked, ”said Dipankar Bhattacharya, general secretary of the Communist Liberation Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).
According to leftist leaders, although the alliance with the two parties has helped in the conversion of votes, what has also led to the good performance is the cadre base of the three parties that helped extend the reach of the grand alliance.
The trends for the 243 seats are available on the Election Commission website. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which has the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) as its constituents, leads with 128 seats. The BJP is emerging as the main partner this time, as it leads in 74 of the 110 seats it contested and JD (U) in 47 of the 115 seats it contested.
The other components of the NDA – Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) (HAM) – lead with six and one seats, respectively.
The counting of votes in the Bihar Assembly elections will continue until Tuesday night, Bihar Electoral Director HR Srinivasa said.
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