Cracks appear in third front, SP to contest 146 seats

October 07, 2015 18:53

Fissures appeared in the third front in Bihar with Samajwadi Party oday announcing it would contest 146 seats instead of 85 seats declared earlier. SP Secretary General Kiranmoy Nanda told reporters that his party would field candidate on 146 seats in place of 85 declared earlier as part of seat-sharing among six parties comprising the third front.

Nanda said there would be friendly fight among constituents of third front in some seats and attributed it to lack of agreement among partners due to paucity of time as announcement of third front came after the process of nomination had begun.

The SP along with the NCP, Janadhikar the Party of Madhepura MP Pappu Yadav, the Samajwadi Janata Party of former Union minister Devendra Prasad Yadav, the National Peoples Party of former Speaker P A Sangma and the Samras Samaj Party of former Union minister Nagmani had announced third front recently and announced allocation of seats among them.

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