The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders in Bihar held a press conference to announce seat-sharing in the state on Monday. The BJP will contest 17 Lok Sabha seats, JD(U) 16, LJP(Ram Vilas) five, two other parties one each, said the BJP leader Vinod Tawde. Hindustani Awam Morcha and Rashtriya Lok Morcha on one seat each, he added.
"5 seats have been given to Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas). We will win all 40 Lok Sabha seats of Bihar," said Raju Tiwari, Bihar president, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas).
BJP to contest on these seats in Bihar
The Bharatiya Janata Party to contest 17 seats including Paschim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Aurangabad, Madhubani, Araria, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Maharajganj, Saran, Ujiarpur, Begusarai, Nawada, Patna Sahib, Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar and Sasaram.
JD-U gets these seats in Bihar
The Janata Dal-United to contest 16 seats including Valmiki Nagar, Sitamarhi, Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Madhepura, Gopalganj, Siwan, Bhagalpur, Banka, Munger, Nalanda, Jahanabad and Sheohar.
The Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) to contest 5 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar including Vaishali, Hajipur, Samastipur, Khagaria and Jamui. The Jitan Ram Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) to contest only the Gaya seat while Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) will fight the Karakat seat.
The BJP decided to leave Sheohar for the JDU. The LJP also parted ways with Nawada for the BJP. The JDU left Gaya and Karakat for the HAM and the RLM respectively.
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan extended his gratitude towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a seat-sharing deal was announced in which his party got five seats meeting his expectations.
"I would like to thank PM Modi for the way he kept the respect of our party. Thanks to all the friends in the NDA, the easiness with which the seat-sharing has been done and the sacrifices every party has made to strengthen the alliance is commendable. We will together work to achieve the vision of PM Modi to win all 40 seats. LJP will contest in Jamui, Hajipur, Khagaria, Samastipur and Vaishali... When my father (Ram Vilas Paswan) passed away, the responsibility was on my uncle (Pashupati Kumar Paras) to hold the party and family together, and my father wherever he is today must have been sad to see that the party and the symbol that he had chosen is still under freeze," he said.
Bihar will vote in all seven phases of the Lok Sabha elections. Here is a list of phase-wise constituencies:
- Phase 1: Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada and Jamui.
- Phase 2:Kishanganj, Banka, Bhagalpur, Purnia and Katihar
- Phase 3: Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura and Khagaria
- Phase 4: Darbhanga, Ujiarpur, Samastipur, Begusarai and Munger
- Phase 5: Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Saran and Hajipur
- Phase 6: Valmiki Nagar, Paschim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Vaishali, Gopalganj, Siwan and Maharajganj
- Phase 7: Nalanda, Patana Sahib, Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar, Sasaram, Karakat and Jahanabad
