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India Bloc Seat-Sharing Faces Uphill Task in Bihar
The Morning Standard
|July 30, 2025
The INDIA bloc has begun discussions on contentious seat-sharing for the forthcoming election in Bihar, but faces an uphill task in building a consensus among all allies, given their growing aspiration for cornering more seats.
Former minister and VIP chief Mukesh Sahani, in a terse post on X, said, "Vikassheel Insaan Party will contest the election on 60 seats in 2025. On the remaining seats, our coalition partners will contest."
In addition, Sahani is eyeing the deputy chief minister's post, insisting that the 'son of a Mallah' in that post would be a matter of pride. However, VIP has no members in the Bihar assembly as its four MLAs switched over to the BJP.
This story is from the July 30, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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