Seat-sharing for LS polls in Bihar: JD-U wants assembly election results to play key role

June 24, 2018 16:11

The JD-U wants the results of the 2015 Bihar assembly polls, in which it had fared much better than the BJP, to be a key factor while deciding how many seats each of the four NDA parties in the state will get to contest in the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

Though the demand of the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led party is unlikely to be met with any enthusiasm by the BJP or two of its other allies -- the Ram Vilas Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party and the Upendra Kushwaha-led Rashtriya Lok Samata Party -- JD(U) leaders claim that the asembly polls were the latest show of strength in the state and the outcome of it could not be ignored while distributing seats for the general election.

Formal talks over a seat-sharing formula among the NDA constituents are yet to begin and JD-U leaders, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the BJP should take the lead to ensure that it was done quickly to avoid any serious differences near the polls.

In the assembly election, the JD-U had won 71 of the 243 seats, while the BJP had emerged victorious in 53 seats and the LJP and RLSP in two each.

The JD-U was then an ally of the RJD and the Congress, before it dumped them last year to rejoin the NDA.

A BJP leader described the JD-U's argument as "unrealistic" and the "usual political tactics" deployed by different parties ahead of elections.

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