NDA ready with Bihar seat share, BJP to fight 102 seats

The BJP and jd(U) tonight reached a seat-sharing agreement for the Bihar Assembly elections. The BJP will contest 102 seats, three short of ...

The BJP and jd(U) tonight reached a seat-sharing agreement for the Bihar Assembly elections. The BJP will contest 102 seats, three short of the number it fought last time while the JD(U) will contest the remaining 141 seats.

BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley said 30-odd mlas who had contested on tickets of other parties and had since joined various constituents of the NDA had been accommodated. The BJP will announce the names of 11 more candidates tomorrow, he said.

BJP has already declared names of 80 candidates, including 39 mlas of the dissolved House.

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The meeting was attended, among others, by jd(U) parliamentary board chairman sharad yadav, nda chief ministerial candidate Nitish Kumar and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi.

Meanwhile, Lok Janashakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan today said he would not get into a post-poll alliance with the Congress-RJD. The LJP’s alliance is with the CPI.

Paswan’s clarification came a day after the Congress claim that there was possibility of an alliance with the LJP after the polls. “We will never have an alliance that will help the RJD form a government in Bihar, not today, not tomorrow,” Paswan said. “They (Congress) are free to criticise me, but I will not. But we will fight them in the Bihar elections with all our strength,” he said.

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