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Brushing aside all speculations regarding seat-sharing disagreement for the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, the three major constituents of UPA in the state — Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and Congress — finally declared Tuesday they will fray the polls together and thus finalized the seats.
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Announcing the decision at a press conference, RJD chief and Union Railway Minister, Lalu Prasad, and LJP president and Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Steel, Ram Vilas Paswan, said, ‘RJD will contest on 25 seats, LJP on 12, and the Congress will fight on 3 seats.”
Meanwhile, Congress is reportedly unhappy with the seat-sharing agreement made between RJD and LJP, and has rejected the agreement. Congress wanted to contest on 6 seats.
The Bihar Congress leaders have urged the party President to snap ties with the RJD-LJP combine and contest the polls on its own. Sources also said that Congress might fight in 20 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar.
Knowing well the Congress would not be pleased with the decision, the former Bihar chief minister said even my brother-in-law is dissatisfied. He wanted to fight for two seats, which we can’t allow. LJP had demanded 16 seats but now is agreed with 12, Lalu said, who got the lions’ share in Bihar.
The RJD leader said the decision has been taken in the interest of nation, keeping party’s interests at bay. The alliance is to strengthen secular forces and defeat communal forces in the country. And so conceding to the demands of the time, the RJD and the LJP have come together and also have left the seats for the Congress untouched.
"We want to make it clear we are with UPA. We are doing this because we aim to make a secular government to fight communal forces," Lalu said.
“In Jharkhand too we will contest elections together. An announcement in this regard will be made tomorrow,” he added.
In the 2004 parliamentary election, RJD had contested on 26 (down with 1 seat now), LJP on 8 (up with 4 seats now) and Congress on 4 seats.
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