From ‘Bihar Bula Hai’ to ‘Deputy Chief Minister Lok Janshakti Party-Ramvilas (LJP-R), someone else will contest the assembly elections from Sikandra seat in Jamui district, Union Minister Chirag Paswan MP brother-in-law Arun Bharti. After the formation of the government, LJP can further make Arun’s name from its quota for the post of Deputy Chief Minister. Sikandra Jamui, reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC), is part of the Jamui Lok Sabha from where Arun first became an MP in 2024. Prafulla Manjhi of Hindustan Awami Morcha (Hum), who is entangled with Chirag, is currently an MLA from Sikandra. Prafulla Manjhi, who has passed BPSC Mains three times and once passed UPSC PT, comes from an ordinary family.
Sources say that along with Sikandra, the Chakai seat of Jamui Lok Sabha is also included in the demand list of Chirag’s party. Sumit Singh, son of late socialist leader Narendra Singh from Chakai, is an independent MLA and a minister in the Nitish Kumar government. Sumit has been a supporter of Nitish Kumar and is close to JDU in the NDA. Sumit, once associated with LJP, became an MLA for the first time on the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) ticket in 2010. In 2015, he contested independent elections and lost to RJD, but in 2020 he defeated everyone. LJP finished fourth.
If you do not see the future in NDA, you will get caught in chaos; Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Chirag Paswan was advised by Chirag clearly said that if the NDA government is formed in 2025, Nitish Kumar will become CM. In the claim of the post of deputy CM, Chirag had said that an experienced LJP-R worker should grace the post. Chirag’s initial steps created confusion that he is involved in the race to become CM by saying ‘Bihar is calling’. Now it is clear that Chirag is not allowed anything less than the post of CM. Chirag said in an interview a few days ago that this time LJP-R will play an important role in the NDA government.
As long as Modi is, Chirag Paswan will not leave NDA; According to sources who rejected the election contesting alone, the main negotiations regarding seat sharing in the NDA are going on between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal United (JDU). The parties of Chirag Paswan, Jitan Ram Manjhi and Upendra Kushwaha are talking about the number of seats and which seats will be received from the BJP. By the way, before the seat sharing, Nitish Kumar has started announcing the names of JDU candidates in the assemblies. Nitish has declared Santosh Nirala a candidate from Rajpur seat of Buxar.
