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As aggravated seat-sharing talks are nether mode with the Bihar-based governmental parties successful the INDIA bloc, 2 elder leaders of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) met Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) person Tejashwi Yadav connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025) astatine his residence to request 7 Assembly seats successful the Bihar elections.
The delegation included the Jharkhand government’s Urban Development Minister Sudivya Kumar and JMM cardinal wide caput Vinod Pandey. Sources successful the enactment said that some leaders pressed for the request of 7 seats and that the JMM submitted a database arsenic well. Backing their demand, the JMM leaders said that the RJD had been allotted six Assembly seats successful the Jharkhand elections held successful November 2024.
Out of 81 Assembly seats, the RJD was offered six and won 4 successful the Jharkhand Assembly elections. When the Hemant Soren authorities was formed, RJD’s Godda MLA Sanjay Prasad Yadav was besides offered a Cabinet post.
According to JMM sources, the enactment wants to contention successful Chakai, Banka, Katoria, Tarapur, Purnea, Manihari, and Dhamdhaha Assembly seats. Out of these seven, the RJD had finished 2nd successful 5 seats — Banka, Katoria, Chakai, Tarapur, and Dhamdhaha — successful the 2020 Assembly elections, whereas the Congress won Manihari and finished 2nd successful Purnea.
Out of 243 Assembly seats successful Bihar, 203 are general, 38 reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC), and 2 seats — Katoria and Manihari — reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST).
Senior RJD leaders including Abdul Bari Siddiqui, Bhola Yadav, RJD’s Jharkhand in-charge Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav, and RJD State portion president Mangani Lal Mandal were besides contiguous during the meeting.
While speaking to The Hindu connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025), Mr. Pandey said, “The gathering with Tejashwi ji was held successful a cordial manner, and we informed the RJD person astir the constituencies wherever JMM tin execute better. At present, I cannot uncover the fig of seats, but a determination volition soon beryllium taken aft our leader, Chief Minister Hemant Soren ji, speaks to Lalu Prasad ji and Tejashwi ji.”
Sources successful the RJD said that the enactment has agreed connected 2 seats — Chakai and Katoria — to JMM, keeping the caller confederation partners successful mind, which see Vikassheel Insaan Party’s Mukesh Sahani and Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party’s Pashupati Kumar Paras.
During the Jharkhand Assembly elections, the then-Congress president Rajesh Thakur had played the relation of mediator erstwhile the RJD had threatened to contention unsocial if not fixed its desired fig of seats. At that time, the RJD had demanded 7 seats.
A elder JMM person said that the Jharkhand Chief Minister has erstwhile again requested Mr. Thakur to convey a connection to the Bihar Congress and RJD to acceptable speech their egos earlier reaching a consensus.
“If JMM gets a just stock of seats, our Chief Minister and his wife, Kalpana Soren ji, volition run for the INDIA bloc candidates successful Bihar. They are crowd-pullers compared to different Opposition Chief Ministers, galore of whom seldom present speeches successful Hindi — beryllium it from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, oregon Kerala. Hence, it would beryllium bully to support JMM successful bully humour,” a JMM person said, requesting anonymity.
