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After the decision successful the precocious concluded Assembly elections successful Bihar, a rift has seemingly deepened wrong the Opposition mahagathbandhan, with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) connected Saturday launching a crisp onslaught connected state Congress, saying, “If they [Congress party] privation to person its ain mode successful Bihar, fto it be, they volition cognize their existent strength”.
Both the Congress and the RJD are presently holding reappraisal meetings to measure reasons for the parties’ dismal show successful the Assembly elections. The Opposition mahagathbandhan secured lone 35 seats successful the 243-member House, portion the ruling NDA won 202 seats. Under the alliance, the Congress won lone six of the 60 seats it contested successful the 2025 Assembly election.
“If they (Congress party) privation to illustration retired a antithetic governmental people successful Bihar, fto them bash it. They volition cognize their existent strength,” RJD State president Mangani Lal Mandal told media persons successful Patna connected Saturday. Mr. Mandal further said that “RJD has a beardown enactment basal and RJD’s confederation partners lone got benefited from it”.
Earlier connected November 28, immoderate Congress leaders, successful a reappraisal gathering successful Delhi, had pointed fingers astatine the RJD for the party’s defeat, Mr. Mandal said. “If Congress enactment has nary enactment basal wherefore RJD support it nether alliance. Mr. Mandal should rise specified issues astatine due enactment forum and not to the media,” said Congress spokesperson Asit Nath Tiwari. Reacting to this, the RJD State president recalled that successful the 2020 Assembly elections “Congress enactment had contested connected 70 seats and won 19 seats lone due to the fact that of RJD support”.
The RJD is holding its reappraisal gathering connected reasons for the decision astatine the State enactment office successful Patna, and it is scheduled to reason connected December 9.
Meanwhile, the State Assembly is scheduled to statesman its 4 to 5 time league from December 1, and each recently elected RJD legislators met connected Saturday astatine enactment person Tejashwi Yadav’s authoritative residence astatine 1, Polo Road. At the meeting, the Opposition RJD MLAs discussed strategy and issues to beryllium raised successful the upcoming legislative session.
Meanwhile, erstwhile Minister and elder BJP person Syed Shahnawaz Hussain took a jibe astatine the interior rift betwixt the RJD and the Congress pursuing the electoral debacle, saying, “They [Congress-RJD] were warring adjacent earlier the elections and doing the aforesaid aft the predetermination results. It is bound to hap betwixt them arsenic their ties are meant for governmental gains and it is based not connected immoderate ideology.” “Their confederation is unholy,” Mr. Hussain asserted.
