Bihar Polls: How A Non-Existent JMM Is Spelling Bother For Tejashwi Yadav’s RJD | India Information
Bihar Election 2025: With Bihar meeting elections solely months away, the political events are eager on finalising their seat share and candidate names. The combat in Bihar is between two alliances primarily -the NDA and the Mahagathbandhan. The NDA includes political events just like the BJP, JDU, RJPRV and HAM whereas the Mahagathbandhan consists of RJD, Congress, VIP, JMM and Left events. The NDA and the Mahagathbandhan have intensified their efforts to succeed in a seat-sharing settlement with their allies. Amid this, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) has reportedly spelt hassle for the RJD by demanding 12 seats.
Notably, JMM is the ruling social gathering in neighbouring state Jharkhand the place its allies are Congress, Left and RJD. Within the 2024 Jharkhand meeting polls, the JMM had given six seats and a ministerial publish to the RJD in Jharkhand. Now, it desires Tejashwi Yadav’s social gathering to return the favour. Whereas Jharkhand has 81 meeting seats, Bihar has 243 seats.
The RJD is unlikely to just accept the JMM’s demand given the previous electoral performances. Within the 2020 Bihar meeting elections, the JMM had contested 5 seats — Pirpainti, Katoria, Jhajha, Chakai and Manihari. Nevertheless, it didn’t win any. This time, the JMM is staking declare on 12 seats together with Tarapur, Belhar, Katoria, Chakai, Jhajaha, Dhamdaha, Manihari.
Seat-sharing talks throughout the Mahagathbandhan alliance in Bihar are hitting a number of roadblocks, notably as a result of rising calls for of alliance companion Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). With the Congress insisting on contesting 70 seats—matching its tally from the 2020 Meeting elections—the discussions have gotten more and more advanced. The RJD, the main social gathering within the alliance, seems reluctant to supply greater than 50 to 55 seats to Congress, creating pressure throughout the alliance.
Formal talks started final month when senior leaders from the Mahagathbandhan convened in Patna to kick-start preparations and shortlist potential candidates, reported the Indian Categorical. Nevertheless, with every social gathering eyeing an even bigger share of the pie, reaching a consensus is proving difficult.
Within the final Meeting elections held in 2020, the NDA, led by Nitish Kumar, managed to type the federal government by securing 125 seats, whereas the Mahagathbandhan fell simply quick with 110. The RJD had emerged as the one largest social gathering, successful 75 out of the 144 seats it contested. The Congress, nevertheless, had a disappointing run, successful simply 19 out of 70 seats. Left events—CPI(ML), CPI, and CPI(M)—additionally participated, contesting 19, 6, and 4 seats respectively.
With previous performances nonetheless contemporary in reminiscence and future stakes excessive, seat-sharing talks are anticipated to stay tense because the alliance makes an attempt to discover a system that retains all companions on board.
