NDA Finalises Seat Sharing for Bihar Elections

NDA announces seat break-up for the Bihar elections to be held from October 15 to November 5.

After multiple meetings in the last few days, the BJP and its three regional allies arrived at a consensus on seat-sharing for the Bihar election this morning, and BJP President Amit Shah announced the division.

The BJP will contest 160 seats, Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Jan-shakti Party will contest 40 seats, Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Samata Party will contest for 23 seats and Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustan Awam Morcha will contest 20 out of 243 seats in Bihar.