Bihar Elections: The political turmoil regarding Bihar assembly elections is not showing any signs of stopping. The nomination process for the first phase of voting has ended, but the issue of seat distribution among the parties of the Grand Alliance is still entangled. The parties that have promised to contest the elections together have fielded candidates against each other on eight seats.
In the eight seats of the first phase, the allies of the Grand Alliance have come into the electoral fray against each other. This situation has not only raised questions on the unity of the Grand Alliance, but the friendly fight has exposed the mutual conflict between the parties. RJD, Congress, Left and VIP, the parties included in the grand alliance, not only released the list of their candidates but their candidates have also filed nominations for the first phase.
Grand alliance parties face each other on 8 seats
But due to lack of mutual consent, they are challenging their own allies on eight seats. In the first phase, RJD has fielded candidates on 72 seats, Congress on 26 seats, Left parties on 21 seats and VIP on 6 seats.
The most interesting situation is of those eight assembly seats, where the parties of the Grand Alliance are fighting among themselves. These include important assembly seats like Vaishali, Rajapakad, Bachhwara, Rosra, Lalganj, Biharsharif, Tarapur and Kahalgaon.
Know which are those seats where there is chaos
1. Rosra: Congress has made former Tamil Nadu DGP BK Ravi its candidate from here, but on Friday, CPI candidate Laxman Paswan has filed his nomination against him from here. In 2020, Narendra Kumar Vikal of Congress had contested the elections from here.
2. Rajapakad: Current Congress MLA Pratima Das is a candidate from here and has filed her nomination. Despite this, Mohit Paswan from CPI has also filed his nomination from here on Friday.
3. Bihar Sharif: Congress has made Omer Khan its candidate, yet CPI candidate Shiv Prakash Yadav alias Sardar ji has filed his nomination from here. In 2020, RJD candidate had won this seat.
4. Vaishali: This has been a Congress seat, last time Sanjeev Singh had contested from here, this time RJD has also made Ajay Kushwaha a candidate from here.
5. Lalganj: Lalganj has also been a Congress seat. From here, Congress made Aditya Kumar its candidate and RJD fielded Munna Shukla’s daughter Shivani Shukla.
6. Narkatiaganj: Here too there is conflict between RJD and Congress.
7. Warisaliganj: This has also been a Congress seat. Congress’s Satish Singh contested in 2020. RJD also gave candidates from here.
8. Bachhwara: There is a fight here between Awadhesh Rai of CPI(M) and Garibdas of Congress.
