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BJP seat sharing , NDA seat sharing , Bihar polls, Bihar assembly elections, bihar, bjp, bihar assembly elections 2015, nitish kumar, ljp, rlsp, nda, jitan ram manjhi,bihar latest news
Bhagalpur (Bihar), Aug 25: A day after two of its allies said seat sharing in Bihar must conclude within a week, a BJP leader announced on Tuesday that his party will contest 170 of the 243 assembly seats.
"The BJP will contest nearly 170 seats, there is no question of anything less than that," Ashwani Kumar Choubey, an MP and a former minister, said here.
According to Shivanand Tiwari, former MP and an insider of Bihar politics for more than two decades, the Lalu-Nitish alliance has made both the RLSP and LJP vulnerable to BJP blackmail. Had there been no Mahagatbandhan, both Kushwaha and Paswan could have played tantrums with 'Maike Chali Jaungi' like threat.
As per Tiwari's assessment, BJP will contest at least 170 of the 243 seats of the Bihar assembly, leaving 73 seats for its three alliance partners. Paswan and Kushwaha have applied for the mortar in the hope of getting at least a gun, felt the former Rajya Sabha member.
BJP can not afford to leave more than 73 seats for its allies, as the party, besides accommodating the sitting MLAs of the other parties who recently joined the BJP, will also have to reward its committed workers who have toiled hard to bring the BJP in the position in which the party finds itself. Its workers have done the nearly impossible by making BJP a strong contender for power in Bihar, the state infamous for its caste driven politics, felt the veteran politician.
RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha says his party wants to contest from 67 seats. He said the LJP should get 74 seats. BJP president Amit Shah announced earlier this year that his party wanted to contest and win 185 of the 243 seats.
The RJD and the JD-U have decided to contest 100 seats each, leaving 40 to the Congress and three to the Nationalist Congress Party.