The seat-sharing arrangement within the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the upcoming Bihar Assembly election was finalised on Sunday evening after a series of meetings among senior alliance leaders in New Delhi.
Janata Dal (United) working president Sanjay Jha and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) election in-charge Vinod Tawde shared the details on social media platform X.
Both the BJP and JD(U) will contest 101 seats each, while the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) led by Union Minister Chirag Paswan will contest 29 seats. The Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) led by Upendra Kushwaha and the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) led by Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi have been allocated six seats each.
Sharing the announcement, Mr. Jha wrote, “We NDA colleagues have completed the distribution of seats in a cordial atmosphere. Leaders and workers of NDA parties welcome this with joy and are resolved and united to make Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ji the Chief Minister again with a massive majority.”
Mr. Tawde, too, posted on X: “For the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, all members of the NDA family have completed the distribution of seats through mutual consensus in a cordial atmosphere. Leaders and workers of all NDA parties have joyfully welcomed this decision. Everyone has fastened the belt and are resolved to form an NDA government in Bihar once again.”
