Jitan Ram Manjhi demands Rajya Sabha seat for his party

Former Bihar Chief Minister and Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi connected Sunday (December 21, 2025) alleged unfair attraction wrong the NDA and indicated that helium mightiness person to reconsider his options if his party, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM), was not allotted a Rajya Sabha seat.

The erstwhile Chief Minister made the remarks successful his Gayaji Lok Sabha constituency, wherever helium addressed a relation of his enactment and aboriginal responded to questions from journalists.

Mr. Manjhi, accompanied by his lad Santosh Kumar Suman, a State Minister and HAM’s nationalist president, spoke of the “treachery” helium claimed to person faced wrong the alliance.

Speaking successful the section dialect, Mr. Manjhi said, “We volition person to illustration our ain way if we don’t get our due. My ain ministerial berth is nary large deal. I volition past politically adjacent if I cease to beryllium successful the Union Cabinet.” Manjhi made it wide that his party, of which helium is the lone MP, present wanted a berth successful the Upper House arsenic well.

However, erstwhile journalists approached him with much queries, Manjhi backtracked and said, “Please bash not twist my words retired of context. I can’t adjacent determine for my enactment due to the fact that I americium not its office-bearer, but lone its patron”.

The 80-year-old leader, who floated HAM successful 2015, added that his comments were prompted by media reports suggesting that successful the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections successful April, the BJP and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) would assertion 2 seats each, portion 1 would spell to Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas).

He said, “This leaves america with the question arsenic to what harm is determination successful the Rajya Sabha elections. Ahead of the 2024 wide elections, we were promised 2 LS seats and 1 RS seat. We got lone 1 Lok Sabha seat, which we won for the NDA. The committedness connected the Rajya Sabha spot remains to beryllium fulfilled, and that is what I wanted to item earlier our enactment workers.”