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BJP and its allies Bihar seat sharing finalised: Announcement likely today

by IBNS 14 Sep 2015, 07:45 am

Patna, Sept 14(IBNS) The Bharatiya Janata Party and its Bihar allies are liekly to announce are likely to announce on Monday their seat sharing for the Bihar assembly polls after an understanding has been reached with Jitan Ram Manjhi's party.

Though the BJP had earlier reached resolved the seat sharing problem with other partners like Ram Vilas Pawan's Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLS), a bottleneck remained in the way of clearing all hurdles as Hindustan Awarm Morcha of former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi demanded a bigger piece of the cake.
 
The Bihar Assembly has 243 seats of which the BJP was supposed to field candidates in 160 candidates leaving the rest for its allies.