“Need To Be Flexible”: Congress On Bihar Allies’ ’16-Seats-Each’ Plan

New Delhi:

The Bihar Congress — in face of plans by allies Janata Dal United and the Rashtriya Janata Dal to contest 16 seats every within the coming Lok Sabha election– has urged another.

As a substitute of contesting on 16 seats every, the 2 allies ought to contest 15 every, stated state Congress chief Akhilesh Singh in an interview with NDTV. One seat can go to CPIML and the Congress will contest the remainder, he stated.

“Each political occasion related to INDIA must be versatile if the INDIA Bloc has to contest elections collectively,” Mr Singh.

“The JD(U) had contested elections with BJP in Bihar in 2019. It’s a good factor that he’s with us immediately. It’s true that they’ve extra variety of sitting MPs,” Mr Singh advised NDTV.

Bihar has 40 Lok Sabha seats, of which the Congress contested 9 within the 2019 election, when Nitish Kumar was in alliance with the BJP. This time too, the occasion needs to be given a good variety of seats. Some leaders of the INDIA bloc need just one seat must be given to CPI(M-L) in Bihar.

Then opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal had contested a piece however didn’t win any.

The JD(U) had received 16 seats, the BJP received 17 seats, Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Social gathering, six seats. The Congress received a single seat — Kishanganj.

The seats-sharing talks within the INDIA Bloc — pending for therefore lengthy — have began immediately. It is going to be performed by the state unit leaders of the Grand Previous Social gathering, its chief Mallikarjun Kharge has stated.