Meira Kumar, Sharad Yadav & Misa in Cong-RJD’s List for 2019 Polls

While RJD will contest in 19 seats, Congress will fight from nine Lok Sabha seats in Bihar.

The Bihar mahagathbandhan on Friday, 29 March, released seat-sharing agreement for the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Announcing the agreement, RJD leader and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son Tejashwi Yadav said that his party will contest from 19 seats, Congress will fight from nine seats. While RLSP has been allotted 5 seats, other alliance partners including HAM(S) and CPI(ML) have been allotted seven seats together.

The Congress later announced the nomination of former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar from Bihar's Sasaram and its sitting MP Ranjet Ranjan from Supaul in Bihar. Kumar lost the Sasaram seat during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.