BJP National Chairman JP Nadda will meet today with Bihar’s top party leaders on the strategy for the upcoming assembly elections and to discuss the allocation of seats.
The meeting between Nadda and other Bihar leaders will be held at the party’s office in New Delhi.
Hours earlier, BJP Chief Deputy Minister and Leader Sushil Kumar Modi left Patna for Delhi.
The state health minister, Mangal Pandey, was also seen at Patna airport this morning, where he had arrived to catch a flight to the national capital.
The meeting has been called because there is confusion in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) about the distribution of seats.
While the BJP had previously said that it will fight the elections under the leadership of Janata Dal (United) leader and Prime Minister Nitish Kumar, the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), another NDA ally, has been demanding a greater number of seats.
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In addition, in a new development in the ballot-linked state, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) National Secretary General Anand Madhav resigned from the party today. Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav had met Madhav last night. The resignation of the RLSP leader followed this meeting.
Meanwhile, Congress also called its Bihar unit chief Madan Mohan Jha and CLP leader Sadanand Singh to Delhi on Wednesday, amid discussions about seat sharing with the RJD and other allies.
The RJD-Congress-Left alliance is holding final rounds of talks to share seats for the Bihar assembly elections and an announcement is likely to be made later this week.
The Bihar assembly elections will take place in three phases: on October 28, November 3 and 7, and the vote counting will take place on November 10.
In the 2015 assembly polls, JD-U, RJD, and Congress had fought together in the elections under the banner of Mahagathbandhan. On the other hand, the BJP-led NDA had fought the elections with the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and other allies.
RJD with 80 seats had become the largest party in the elections, followed by JD-U (71) and BJP (53). However, BJP obtained the highest vote share (24.42 percent), followed by RJD with 18.35 percent and JD-U (16.83 percent).
Later differences arose between the RJD and the JD-U, prompting Prime Minister Nitish Kumar to return to the NDA.
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