Bihar Politics, Elections 2024: Seat sharing formula has been decided in Bihar NDA. With this, the ongoing controversy regarding seat distribution also ended. The seats were finally distributed among all the parties involved in the alliance. The seat sharing formula was decided in the meeting of the parties involved in the alliance in Delhi. Now the seat distribution has also been formally announced.
Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP) President and Union Minister Pashupati Paras is being overshadowed by his nephew Lok Janshakti Party (R) President Chirag Paswan. Both the parties are in NDA, but why Chirag has become more important in the eyes of BJP, know in this report.
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First, Know the Seat sharing deal
Seat sharing deal in Bihar NDA finalized. An agreement was reached regarding seat sharing among the parties involved in the alliance. There are total five parties included in Bihar NDA. It was decided that BJP got 17 seats, JDU 16, Chirag’s party 5, Upendra Kushwaha 1 and Jitan Ram Manjhi got one seat.
The last round of talks regarding seat sharing took place in Delhi on Monday. JDU’s Umesh Kushwaha, Rashtriya Lok Morcha President Upendra Kushwaha, Hindustani Awam Morcha patron Jitan Ram Manjhi, Chirag Paswan’s party state president Raju Tiwari, Bihar BJP state president Samrat Chaudhary were present in the NDA meeting.
According to the seat sharing formula decided in Bihar NDA, BJP will contest elections on 17 Lok Sabha seats of Bihar. Nitish Kumar’s party JDU is going to field its candidates on 16 seats in the Lok Sabha elections.
Chirag Paswan’s party LJP (Ram Vilas) has got 5 seats. Upendra Kushwaha’s party Rashtriya Lok Morcha has got one seat and Jitan Ram Manjhi’s party Hindustani Awam Morcha has also got one seat. Pashupati Kumar Paras’s party Rashtriya LJP had to face the issue. NLJP has not got a single seat in the Lok Sabha.
BJP – 17 seats
Araria Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Harajganj, Saran, Ujiarpur, Begusarai, Nawada, Patna Sabih, Patliputra, Arrah, Buxar and Sasaram
JDU – 16 Seats
Valmikinagar, Sitamarhi, Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Madhepura, Gopalganj, Siwan, Bhagalpur, Banka, Jehanabad and Siwan,
LJPR (Chirag Paswan) – 5 seats
Vaishali, Hajipur, Samastipur, Khagaria and Jamui
HAM (Jitan Ram Manjhi) – 1 seat
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RLMO (Upendra Kushwaha)- 1 seat
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Chirag Paswan remained in NDA even after facing setbacks
Pashupati Paras had broken the Lok Janshakti Party formed by his brother Ram Vilas Paswan to get the post of minister at the Centre. The result was that out of six LJP MPs, five left with Pashupati Paras. Chirag Paswan is the only MP left in his party.
Pashupati Paras got the benefit of being a camp with more MPs and he got a place in the Union Cabinet three years ago. The party also got divided into two parts. Chirag Paswan became the president of the party named LJP (R), while Pashupati Paras became the head of the party named Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party. As soon as he became the minister, Paras became so proud that he stopped paying attention to the organization.
On the other hand, Chirag Paswan kept the flame of politics alive. He kept roaming in Bihar continuously. Kept getting involved in people’s happiness and sorrow. Kept raising voice on the problems of Bihar. Even though he had to criticize CM Nitish Kumar for this, whether he was with NDA or apart from it.
This means that Chirag maintained his concern with the public. Even though Pashupati Paras did a lot, he remained limited to his parliamentary constituency Hajipur.
BJP has seen organizational potential in Chirag
BJP kept assessing Chirag’s organizational ability. He also keenly realized the weakness of Paras. Perhaps this was the reason why BJP gave more importance to Chirag’s party with the only MP and cheated Pashupati Paras, who became a minister with five MPs, during the election time.
On the question of seats, both of them claimed the same number of six seats separately as last time. Chirag was successful in making the BJP leadership understand his pain, troubles and helplessness. Thats why BJP started giving more preference to Chirag than Paras. Now BJP has given five Lok Sabha seats to Chirag Paswan led LJP. He has also been assured of a seat in the Rajya Sabha sources says.
Both claim 6-7 percent votes in Bihar
In the last elections in Bihar, undivided Lok Janshakti Party got seven percent votes. Then LJP had won all the six seats of its share. In Bihar, approximately this percentage of votes are decisive in the Lok Sabha elections.
That means victory and defeat are decided by the same number of votes. BJP knows that Ram Vilas Paswan had created a platform for so many votes. Chirag Paswan is the son of Ram Vilas Paswan. That means he has inherited his father’s natural inheritance.
BJP is also aware of Chirag’s power because due to his influential votes in the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, he had defeated Nitish Kumar’s party JDU on two-two and a half dozen seats. That means the base votes of LJP are mostly with Chirag Paswan. Thats the reason, BJP has given more importance to Chirag than his uncle Paras.
