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The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which has announced a list of 22 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, seems to have fallen back on its trusted Muslim-Yadav combine to keep social combinations intact.
With barely ten days to go for the Lok Sabha polls, Bihar’s Leader of Opposition and ex-deputy chief minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, 34, has stepped up his campaigning. Spearheading the RJD’s charge, Tejashwi has also emerged as the face of the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) in the crucial battleground state. In an interview withThe Indian Express, Tejashwi speaks on several burning issues, ranging from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s onslaught over corruption and dynasty politics to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s poll pitch, to the Opposition’s challenges. Excerpts:
Now that both the NDA and INDIA bloc have announced their seat-sharing formula, and their constituent parties have declared their candidates as well, two things are clearly emerging in the battle for Bihar. While the NDA, which had won 39 out of 40 seats in the 2019 polls, is banking mostly on sitting MPs, RJD chief Lalu Prasad has, expectedly, dictated the terms within the INDIA bloc as far as ally Congress goes.
Bihar’s Mahagathbandhan on Friday finally announced its seat-sharing agreement for the state’s 40 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, with the Rashtriya Janata Dal contesting 26 seats, the Congress nine, and Left parties contesting the remaining five.
The seat-sharing talks between Congress and RJD in Bihar are stuck mainly over the Purnea seat. Former MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, who recently merged his Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) into Congress, is adamant on contesting from Purnea, while RJD plans to field former minister and Rupauli MLA Bima Bharati.
ITS FLURRY of tie-ups and induction of leaders from other parties would eventually have led to the situation the the BJP finds itself facing in Bihar: a problem of plenty. Having signed up with the JD(U), it now has to not just find a way to keep Chirag Paswan and his Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) happy, but also his estranged uncle by its side.
A fortnight afterthree RJD MLAs crossed over to the JD(U) during the confidence motion moved by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to prove his majority at the head of an NDA government, three more legislators from the INDIA bloc surfaced among the Treasury ranks Tuesday.
As the Nitish Kumar government sailed through to a 129-0 majority in the trust vote on Monday after Opposition MLAs staged a walkout, three Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLAs and one from the Janata Dal (United)grabbed the limelight.