NDA seats have been divided for the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar. Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) will contest elections on five seats. BJP's Bihar in-charge Vinod Tawde held a press conference with NDA leaders and announced all the seats of the NDA alliance. He said that the formula has been discussed and all the parties involved in the NDA alliance have accepted it.
According to the formula that has been decided, BJP will contest on 17 seats while JDU will contest on 16 seats. Chirag Paswan's party has been given 5 seats, Manjhi's party Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) has been given 1 seat and Upendra Kushwaha's party has been given 1 seat. It is noteworthy that Pashupati Paras's Lok Janshakti Party did not get a single seat in it. A few days ago, Paras had hinted at a coup and said that he had options open to him.
BJP will contest elections on these seats
West Champaran, East Champaran, Aurangabad, Madhubani, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Maharajganj, Saran, Ujiarpur, Begusarai, Nawada, Patna Sahib, Patliputra, Arrah, Buxur, Sasaram and Araria.
These seats came to JDU's account
Vamiki Nagar, Sitamarhi, Janjarpur, Supaul, Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Madhepura, Gopalganj, Siwan, Bhagalpur, Banka, Munger, Nalanda, Jehanabad and Shivhar.
Chirag Paswan will contest elections on five seats
Vaishali, Hajipur, Samastipur, Khagaria and Jamui
Jitan Ram Manjhi's party will contest elections from Gaya seat. Similarly, Upendra Kushwaha's party will contest elections from Karkat Lok Sabha seat.
Chirag Paswan's party leader Raju Tiwari said, 'After talking to the top leadership of BJP, we have got five seats. I want to assure that we will win not just five seats but all 40 seats in Bihar.
JDU leader Sanjay Jha, who was present during this time, said that this time there is a one-sided election in Bihar and NDA will win all 40 seats. Meanwhile, State Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Samrat Chaudhary said that the target is to win 40 seats in Bihar. Apart from the last three constituent parties, Jitan Ram Manjhi and Kushwaha ji's RLM are also in NDA.
Elections will be held in seven phases in Bihar
Voting will be held in seven phases in Bihar on 19 April, 26 April, 7 May, 13 May, 20 May, 25 May and 1 June. Voting will be held on 4 seats of Bihar in the first phase. Voting will be held on 5 seats each in the third, fourth and fifth phases. Apart from this, voting will be held on 8 seats each in the sixth and seventh phases.
NDA won 39 seats in 2019
At the same time, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, NDA (BJP, JDU and LJP) won a landslide victory. NDA won 39 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, while the Grand Alliance won only one Kishanganj seat. in which the Congress candidate won