PATNA: Even as all eyes are set on how the NDA resolves the thorny seat-sharing factor, the rival Mahagatbandhan in Bihar is busy stitching a rainbow coalition to defeat the BJP-led aggregate within the 2019 common elections.
Efforts are on to cobble up team spirit and distribute 40 Lok Sabha seats among Mahagatbandhan rainbow coalition companions comprising the RJD, Congress, NCP, HAM (Hindustani Awam Morcha), the Left and Sharad Yadav.
Senior leaders of the constituent parties were meeting clear of the media glare to discuss seat sharing among them in accordance with "realistic" ground level energy of a birthday party in a constituency, sources within the RJD, Congress and HAM of former leader minister Jitan Ram Manjhi said.
HAM president had a fruitful meeting with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Delhi early this week, its spokesman Danish Rizwan told PTI.
Congress common secretary answerable for organisation, Ashok Gehlot had met Lalu Prasad in Patna on July 12. His son Tejashwi Yadav has additionally met Rahul Gandhi several instances.
Sources insisted that "in all likelihood" the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) of Union minister Upendra Kushwaha would be a part of the Mahagatbandhan.
Kushwaha, Union minister of state for HRD within the Narendra Modi cabinet, had no longer replied to an overture of RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav to join them. But, the sources insisted Kushwaha would in the long run transfer to their camp.
Sources said as consistent with talks up to now, out of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, Lalu Prasad's RJD would have nearly part of them.
The Congress would get 10, HAM and RLSP 4 each, NCP and Left would get one seat each. Veteran socialist chief Sharad Yadav might box his son on RJD symbol from Madhepura, they claimed.
The Congress is seeking extra seats claiming that its reinforce base has higher within the state after the 2015 Assembly election.
"The Congress wants to field its candidates on more than 12 seats it had fought in 2014 in alliance with RJD," its state leader spokesman H Okay Verma said, adding this used to be in accordance with the truth that its reinforce base had expanded now.
Senior Congress chief Ashok Gehlot, all over his meeting at BPCC headquarters in Patna on July 12, faced a requirement by some leaders like Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Singh that the birthday party should insist on a respectable seat-sharing formulation and no longer remain content with whatever used to be left over by the RJD.
Following this Gehlot had said it used to be a "majboori" (compulsion) for the birthday party to hold talks with parties just like the RJD and previous with the JD(U) for an alliance in Bihar and batted for strengthening the birthday party in order that it could win elections on its own.
The RJD had hit back, saying they were themselves nervous in regards to the "bad shape in which the Congress is".
Even HAM is eyeing a fifth seat.
The sources said that former JNU President Kanhayia Kumar could be fielded as a Left birthday party candidate from his native Begusarai constituency.
NCP common secretary Tariq Anwar could be repeated from his Katihar seat.
RJD spokesman Mritunjay Tiwari said that "there is no 'kitch-kitch'(rumbling) on seat-sharing which would be sorted out by senior leaders of the constituents."
As consistent with the arrangements within the Mahagatbandhan in 2014, the RJD had contested 27 seats while Congress had publish nominees at 12 places and NCP I.
The RJD, which depends upon "M-Y" (Muslim-Yadav) reinforce base, had controlled to win four seats then while the Congress bagged two and NCP's Tariq Anwar emerged victorious from Katihar.
The NDA camp had most numbers with BJP winning 22, LJP 6 and RLSP three. The JD(U) with two seats has joined them now.
But, out of the four seats won by the RJD, Madhepura MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav left it to go with the flow his own Jan Adhikar Party (JAP).
The Araria seat orginally won by Mohammad Talimuddin is represented by his son Sarfaraz Alam now after his death. In addition, Lalu Prasad's birthday party has its representatives from Bhagalpur and Banka seats.
The Congress has its MP in Ranjeet Ranjan (wife of Pappu Yadav) from Supual and Mohammad Asararul Haque from Kisanganj.
The RJD ranked 2nd on 20 seats in Bihar within the ultimate Parliamentary poll, while the Congress had ended as runners up in 8 places. The HAM is a new entrant within the camp.
Its leader and previous leader minister Jitan Ram Manjhi had walked out of the NDA on the eve of the Araria Lok Sabha bypoll early this yr and joined arms with Lalu Prasad's birthday party.
Both Manjhi and Kushwaha have felt marginalised after re-entry of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's birthday party JD(U) within the NDA camp following disintegration of the Grand Alliance ministry ultimate yr.
Former state meeting speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary, who has left Nitish Kumar, is transferring within the corporate of RJD and previous Union minister Yashwant Sinha, who surrender the BJP, may be with the Mahagatbandhan and might be fielded by the RJD.
After ice breaking breakfast and dinner meetings with BJP president Amit Shah in Patna on July 12 ultimate, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had exuded self belief that the seat-sharing proposal would come from the BJP in four-five weeks.
The NDA in Bihar comprises the JD(U), the BJP, the LJP and the RLSP.
Efforts are on to cobble up team spirit and distribute 40 Lok Sabha seats among Mahagatbandhan rainbow coalition companions comprising the RJD, Congress, NCP, HAM (Hindustani Awam Morcha), the Left and Sharad Yadav.
Senior leaders of the constituent parties were meeting clear of the media glare to discuss seat sharing among them in accordance with "realistic" ground level energy of a birthday party in a constituency, sources within the RJD, Congress and HAM of former leader minister Jitan Ram Manjhi said.
HAM president had a fruitful meeting with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Delhi early this week, its spokesman Danish Rizwan told PTI.
Congress common secretary answerable for organisation, Ashok Gehlot had met Lalu Prasad in Patna on July 12. His son Tejashwi Yadav has additionally met Rahul Gandhi several instances.
Sources insisted that "in all likelihood" the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) of Union minister Upendra Kushwaha would be a part of the Mahagatbandhan.
Kushwaha, Union minister of state for HRD within the Narendra Modi cabinet, had no longer replied to an overture of RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav to join them. But, the sources insisted Kushwaha would in the long run transfer to their camp.
Sources said as consistent with talks up to now, out of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, Lalu Prasad's RJD would have nearly part of them.
The Congress would get 10, HAM and RLSP 4 each, NCP and Left would get one seat each. Veteran socialist chief Sharad Yadav might box his son on RJD symbol from Madhepura, they claimed.
The Congress is seeking extra seats claiming that its reinforce base has higher within the state after the 2015 Assembly election.
"The Congress wants to field its candidates on more than 12 seats it had fought in 2014 in alliance with RJD," its state leader spokesman H Okay Verma said, adding this used to be in accordance with the truth that its reinforce base had expanded now.
Senior Congress chief Ashok Gehlot, all over his meeting at BPCC headquarters in Patna on July 12, faced a requirement by some leaders like Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Singh that the birthday party should insist on a respectable seat-sharing formulation and no longer remain content with whatever used to be left over by the RJD.
Following this Gehlot had said it used to be a "majboori" (compulsion) for the birthday party to hold talks with parties just like the RJD and previous with the JD(U) for an alliance in Bihar and batted for strengthening the birthday party in order that it could win elections on its own.
The RJD had hit back, saying they were themselves nervous in regards to the "bad shape in which the Congress is".
Even HAM is eyeing a fifth seat.
The sources said that former JNU President Kanhayia Kumar could be fielded as a Left birthday party candidate from his native Begusarai constituency.
NCP common secretary Tariq Anwar could be repeated from his Katihar seat.
RJD spokesman Mritunjay Tiwari said that "there is no 'kitch-kitch'(rumbling) on seat-sharing which would be sorted out by senior leaders of the constituents."
As consistent with the arrangements within the Mahagatbandhan in 2014, the RJD had contested 27 seats while Congress had publish nominees at 12 places and NCP I.
The RJD, which depends upon "M-Y" (Muslim-Yadav) reinforce base, had controlled to win four seats then while the Congress bagged two and NCP's Tariq Anwar emerged victorious from Katihar.
The NDA camp had most numbers with BJP winning 22, LJP 6 and RLSP three. The JD(U) with two seats has joined them now.
But, out of the four seats won by the RJD, Madhepura MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav left it to go with the flow his own Jan Adhikar Party (JAP).
The Araria seat orginally won by Mohammad Talimuddin is represented by his son Sarfaraz Alam now after his death. In addition, Lalu Prasad's birthday party has its representatives from Bhagalpur and Banka seats.
The Congress has its MP in Ranjeet Ranjan (wife of Pappu Yadav) from Supual and Mohammad Asararul Haque from Kisanganj.
The RJD ranked 2nd on 20 seats in Bihar within the ultimate Parliamentary poll, while the Congress had ended as runners up in 8 places. The HAM is a new entrant within the camp.
Its leader and previous leader minister Jitan Ram Manjhi had walked out of the NDA on the eve of the Araria Lok Sabha bypoll early this yr and joined arms with Lalu Prasad's birthday party.
Both Manjhi and Kushwaha have felt marginalised after re-entry of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's birthday party JD(U) within the NDA camp following disintegration of the Grand Alliance ministry ultimate yr.
Former state meeting speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary, who has left Nitish Kumar, is transferring within the corporate of RJD and previous Union minister Yashwant Sinha, who surrender the BJP, may be with the Mahagatbandhan and might be fielded by the RJD.
After ice breaking breakfast and dinner meetings with BJP president Amit Shah in Patna on July 12 ultimate, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had exuded self belief that the seat-sharing proposal would come from the BJP in four-five weeks.
The NDA in Bihar comprises the JD(U), the BJP, the LJP and the RLSP.
Mahagatbandhan for 'rainbow coalition' in Bihar for 2019 Lok Sabha election
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