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Bihar National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders connected Monday (September 22, 2025) raised questions implicit the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, which is going to beryllium held for the archetypal clip successful the State.
The meeting, which volition beryllium held connected September 24, would besides beryllium attended by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
Reacting to the CWC meeting, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president and Union Minister Chirag Paswan termed it unit tactics to bargain for much seats successful the upcoming Assembly election.
“I spot this conscionable arsenic unit politics, the mode [RJD leader] Tejashwi Yadav is doing it by saying that helium volition contention elections connected each 243 seats [in Bihar]. Congress person Rahul Gandhi travelled passim Bihar with Tejashwi Yadav during Voter Adhikar Yatra but remained soundless connected the question of projecting Tejashwi arsenic CM candidate,” Mr. Paswan said portion talking to reporters successful Patna.
He further said, “Congress enactment would equine unit to bargain for much seats due to the fact that successful the past election, Congress enactment was blamed for mediocre show (out of 70 seats contested, Congress won 19). Congress assumes that RJD volition springiness little seats this time, truthful done CWC, they volition reply RJD.”
Mr. Paswan took a excavation astatine the Congress and challenged the enactment to contention solo successful the polls. Mr. Paswan said Congress is the oldest enactment of the state but it cannot situation to contention elections alone.
“Congress should contention predetermination solo successful Bihar. The enactment has thing to lose. Congress cannot situation to contention solo nor RJD, which is 1 of the oldest governmental parties successful Bihar. They volition people Chirag Paswan for contesting solo. At least, I dared to contention successful 2020 Assembly election. If they person guts, they should contention alone,” Mr. Paswan said.
Asked astir talks connected seat-sharing statement successful the NDA, Mr. Paswan said bully quality volition travel successful the beatified period of Navratri. Reacting to getting respectable seats successful the NDA, Mr. Paswan said: “Of course, it volition beryllium respectable.”
Janata Dal (United) State president Umesh Singh Kushwaha echoed the aforesaid implicit the CWC gathering calling it unit authorities to get much seats successful the alliance.
“Congress enactment has nary beingness successful Bihar and they person called the CWC gathering to equine unit connected RJD truthful that they tin get much seats. What has happened successful neighbouring Uttar Pradesh wherever Congress enactment tried an confederation with Samajwadi Party? The radical of Bihar cognize precise good that lone [Chief Minister] Nitish Kumar tin perform. The gathering would person nary interaction connected us,” Mr. Kushwaha said.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Niraj Kumar said that convening a CWC conscionable successful Patna for the archetypal clip since Independence is simply a show-off. “The radical of Bihar cognize good that for decades, the Congress enactment has lone fixed nepotism and corruption. Whether it’s Rahul Gandhi’s sojourn oregon the efforts to signifier an confederation with Tejashwi Yadav, these are each predetermination gimmicks, but the information is that the NDA’s double-engine authorities has enactment Bihar connected the way of development. The radical of Bihar are choosing stableness and advancement nether the enactment of Modi and Nitish, not the bare promises of the Congress,” the BJP spokesperson added.
