The BJP-JD(U) are headed for a seat-sharing tussle in the Lok Sabha election next summer
The Janata Dal United (JD-U) and Bharatiya Janata Party have begun vying for political elbow-room in Bihar ahead of the 2019 general election. There’s simmering unease between the alliance partners on seat-sharing—whether to base it on the results of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls or allocate them according to the 2015 assembly election verdict.
Of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, the ruling National Democratic Alliance has 33, including the two Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) won in 2014, contesting against both the NDA and the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Congress alliance. The BJP holds 22 of the NDA’s seats. And while senior BJP leaders acknowledge the need to drop some of their non-performing MPs, surrendering seats to the JD(U) is apparently not an option.
Senior BJP leaders privately accept that keeping everyone happy will be extremely difficult for party chief Amit Shah, who plans to go to Bihar in July to take stock of the situation.
This story is from the July 09, 2018 edition of India Today.
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