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The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) connected Friday (October 10, 2025) authorised enactment supremo Lalu Prasad to instrumentality the last determination connected enactment of candidates for the upcoming Assembly predetermination successful Bihar.
The predetermination to the 243-member Assembly volition beryllium held successful 2 phases connected November 6 and 11.
The determination was taken astatine the RJD’s State and cardinal parliamentary committee gathering held astatine 10, Circular Road, the authoritative residence of erstwhile Chief Minister Rabri Devi. The gathering was chaired by Mr. Prasad and lad Tejashwi Yadav, who is besides the Leader of Opposition successful the Assembly.
The gathering besides discussed spot organisation among the INDIA bloc allies.
After the meeting, RJD person and main spokesperson Shakti Singh Yadav said: “Lalu Prasadji volition instrumentality the last determination connected the organisation of tickets.”
All the members of the State and parliamentary committees were contiguous astatine the meeting. They included secretary-general Abdul Bari Siddiqui, RJD State portion president Manganilal Mandal, erstwhile Assembly talker Awadh Bihari Choudhary, and MLA Bhai Birendra.
“Whatever determination Lalu ji takes, it volition beryllium accepted by each RJD leaders successful the party,” Mr. Birendra said.
Party sources said that astatine the meeting, everyone requested Mr. Prasad to guarantee that the RJD contested the maximum fig of seats. The State and parliamentary committee members besides urged Mr. Prasad to guarantee that each sections of radical are covered successful the summons distribution. Special absorption should beryllium fixed to the Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs), they said.
The EBCs represent 36% of the full population. Considered a beardown ballot slope of Chief Minister and JD(U) person Nitish Kumar, the grouping is said to person kept him successful powerfulness for the past 20 years.
Tejashwi arsenic CM candidate
Addressing the members, Mr. Prasad said that helium volition look into the suggestions of the members and asked everyone to enactment hard truthful that the INDIA bloc tin signifier the government. He said everyone should person lone “one aim” – to marque Tejashwi Yadav the adjacent Chief Minister of Bihar truthful that helium tin service the people.
“Tejashwi performed good erstwhile helium got the accidental for 17 months arsenic the Deputy Chief Minister. He gave 5 lakh jobs to the radical of Bihar successful a precise abbreviated period. You each should basal with him truthful that helium tin fulfil the committedness of giving 1 authorities occupation to each household,”Mr. Prasad said.
As per enactment sources, the RJD is acceptable to tract candidates from 130 to 140 seats of the 243. The remaining seats volition beryllium distributed among the allies. At present, aggravated bargaining for seats is nether mode successful the INDIA bloc.
Mr. Yadav, who heads the Coordination Committee of the INDIA bloc, is looking astatine each imaginable space to accommodate each the partners, beryllium it the Congress, the Vikashasheel Insaan Party led by Mukesh Sahni, who is demanding astatine slightest 30 seats, and the 3 Left parties – the Communist Party of India(CPI), Communist Party of India(Marxist) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation).
Mr. Yadav besides needs to accommodate the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), which spared six seats for the RJD successful the 2024 Jharkhand Assembly election, arsenic good arsenic the Pashupati Kumar Paras-led Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party, which broke distant from the NDA earlier this year.
