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Bihar polls: Gehlot steps in to defuse Grand Alliance tensions

Business Standard

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October 23, 2025

Meets Lalu amid seat-sharing chaos among partners, candidate clashes

- BS REPORTER & PTI

With the election campaign of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led “grand alliance” in disarray in Bihar — its partners have fielded candidates against one another in atleast eight constituencies — senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot met RJD President Lalu Prasad in Patna on Wednesday to ease tensions among the allies.

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), which heads the INDIA bloc’s coalition government in neighbouring Jharkhand, has already withdrawn from the alliance in Bihar following the RJD’s refusal to accommodate its request to field candidates.

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