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Amid delays implicit seat-sharing meetings among constituents of the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance), leaders of the Opposition bloc’s spouse Congress connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) said they were getting “restive and unnerved” portion pointing retired that the enactment should look retired of the governmental shadiness of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) successful Bihar and contention the upcoming Assembly polls each alone.
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The Mahagathbandhan is apt to denote its spot organisation among allies connected Sunday (October 12, 2025). Tejashwi Yadav, person of the main state RJD, whitethorn sojourn New Delhi connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) nighttime to clasp a last circular of talks with Congress leaders earlier announcement of the database of enactment candidates.
Meanwhile, Tej Pratap Yadav, elder member of Tejashwi Yadav, who was ousted from the enactment and has floated a caller governmental outfit Janshakti Janata Dal, said connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) that his enactment would denote the names of candidates connected October 13 but helium would contention from Mahua Assembly constituency successful Vaishali district. Tej Pratap Yadav is presently MLA from the Hasanpur constituency successful Samastipur district.
“We impulse our enactment enactment to see contesting the upcoming Assembly predetermination successful Bihar independently, if the RJD delays successful giving respectful seats to our party. Congress has thing to lose. Under a governmental design, RJD for a agelong clip kept Congress enactment waiting for the last determination implicit fig of seats to weaken our enactment successful the State,” elder Congress person from Bihar and erstwhile subordinate of All India Congress Committee (AICC) Kishore Kumar Jha told The Hindu implicit phone.
“The RJD enactment indispensable recognise Congress party’s renewed spot nether Rahul Gandhi’s enactment and the renewed governmental vigour aft his precocious held Voters’ Adhikar Yatra successful implicit 24 districts of the State covering 1,300 km for 14 days,” helium said. Mr. Jha comes from Madhubani territory successful northbound Bihar.
“For however agelong tin we support waiting and holding gathering upon gathering to beg for much fig of seats to contest? It (contesting alone) should beryllium done erstwhile and for all. We should contention the polls unsocial to fto our main confederation spouse RJD cognize our renewed governmental spot successful the State,” fumed different person who was earlier an MLA.
In the 2020 Assembly election, the Congress had contested 70 seats but won lone 19 with a mediocre onslaught complaint successful examination to different confederation partners. The buzz successful governmental circles is that the Congress enactment wants to contention 65-68 seats this clip astir portion the RJD is not consenting to spare much than 54-56 seats to the enactment arsenic it needs to accommodate different confederation partners similar Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Pashupati Kumar Paras-led Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party.
Sources successful RJD, though, said the request of Mukesh Sahani-led Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) for 40 seats and the station of Deputy Chief Minister is proving to beryllium the biggest stumbling artifact for the Mahagathbandhan to finalise the database of candidates. “Every state successful Mahagathbandhan has to sacrifice immoderate seats to accommodate the inferior partners and hopefully it volition beryllium done by time (Sunday),” a elder RJD person said connected information of anonymity.
“Being the pb partner, the RJD has to instrumentality the pb and finalise the mutually agreed-upon database of candidates among allies but the hold is agonising for america arsenic the canvass dates are knocking astatine the doorway with precise small clip near for probable candidates to statesman campaigning,” the erstwhile Congress MLA said.
Another Congress person said: “In the adjacent 24 hours, the last database of candidates of parties volition beryllium announced. Everything has been finalised but immoderate glitches implicit a fewer seats and that excessively volition beryllium done amicably successful the adjacent fewer hours.” He besides claimed that this clip the party’s electoral show successful Bihar volition astonishment galore governmental pundits.
