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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.
There is an interesting story on how Rohini Acharya, second of seven daughters of former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi, got her name.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress are stuck over seat-sharing talks in Bihar, with at least three senior Congress leaders expressing unhappiness with the senior Mahagathbandhan member for unilaterally deciding on candidates for four seats going to polls in the first phase on April 19. There is also unhappiness in the RJD about the Congress’s decision to include former party MP Rajesh Ranjan, popularly known as Pappu Yadav, in the party.
AFTER 17 years in jail, Ashok Mahato appears to have hit some pretty lucky breaks. First came the well-received web series titled ‘Khakee: The Bihar Chapter’, based on his life of crime and terror in Sheikhpura and Nawada between 1990 and 2006, till conviction in a case of jailbreak. Then came the wedding bells – a year after his release – with Mahato, 62, getting married to the much-younger Kumari Anita, 46, in Bakhtiyarpur on Tuesday.
From the highs of 2021 to the current low, for Pashupati Kumar Paras it has been a complete turn of fortunes.
The ruling NDA finalised its seat-sharing in Bihar for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls Monday, allotting 17 seats to the BJP, 16 to the JD(U), five to the Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and one each to Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM).
As Bihar heads for a seven-phase election for the Lok Sabha for the second time running, the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal has accused the BJP of misusing government institutions to its benefit.