Bihar Elections: ‘Useless Seats’ Might Warmth Up Congress-RJD Seat-Sharing Talks – News18

Final Up to date:March 28, 2025, 15:35 IST

News18 India’s evaluation of the 70 seats the Congress contested the final time reveals that at the very least 35 of them had been traditionally weak, for each the Congress and RJD

The Congress has made it clear that it’s going to contest the Bihar elections in alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), however a dispute over “lifeless seats”, which have by no means been received, between the 2 events appears inevitable.

Congress leaders imagine that, within the final election, they had been allotted seats, which neither the Congress nor the RJD had received for many years. This time, the Congress desires a respectful alliance association with winnable seats, even because the RJD argues that victory is feasible even on lifeless seats.

News18 India’s evaluation of the 70 seats the Congress contested the final time reveals that at the very least 35 of them had been traditionally weak, for each the Congress and RJD.

THE BREAK-UP

Within the 2015 elections, the Congress contested 41 seats as a part of the Grand Alliance and received 27. Nevertheless, within the 2020 Bihar Meeting elections, the Congress contested 70 seats and received 19, however its strike fee was worse than that of RJD and Left events.

For instance, within the final election, the Congress was given 9 seats in West Champaran and East Champaran districts, of which seven had been NDA strongholds for years. These embody Valmikinagar, Ramnagar, Bagaha, Nautan, Chanpatia, Raxaul, and Govindganj.

Equally, the Congress was given 4 seats in Patna district, however three of them had been lifeless seats — Barh, Bankipur, and Patna Sahib.

In Nalanda district, the Congress acquired three meeting seats — Rajgir, Nalanda, and Harnaut. All three had been lifeless seats. Rajgir has not been received by the Congress since 1962, Harnaut since 1977, and Nalanda since 1995.

LEADERSPEAK

Congress senior chief and MP from Bihar Tariq Anwar says, “Our effort will probably be to regulate the seats by means of mutual settlement. Everybody will probably be given seats the place they’ve affect. If we give a seat the place the Congress has affect to a different occasion, will probably be an obstacle. The occasion that has affect in a specific space will probably be given the seat there.”

Nevertheless, RJD chief and MP Sudhakar Singh argued that seats must be allotted primarily based on winnability and that the Congress, like RJD, may also defeat the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) in robust seats. He cites the instance of how RJD received the Buxar Lok Sabha seat in 2024, a BJP stronghold.

Speaking to News18 India completely, Bihar Congress President Rajesh Kumar stated that the Congress will not be a “B Group” within the alliance and deserves a justifiable share of seats.

Impartial MP from Bihar, Pappu Yadav, who has been actively campaigning for Congress in numerous state elections, believes that if the Congress contests alone, it might win round 40 seats.

Congress sources verify that the problem of lifeless seats has been raised in each occasion assembly from Bihar to Delhi, making it one of the crucial important subjects within the seat-sharing talks.