"There is a two-point stand. Clarity on all our quality seats, as per our equation, has been acquired. After this 2-3 hour-long meeting, we can say that we have made strong decisions on quality faces for the Vidhan Sabha seats from the Congress side. All such names have been approved by t
"We will soon announce the names of candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly Elections... Our priority seats got cleared in the CEC meeting. There is clarity in the Mahagathbandhan," said Krishna Allavaru on Tuesday.
According to the list released on Tuesday, Prem Prapt Singh has been fielded from Chapra, Rajendra Prasad Singh from Lalganj, Aditya Lal from Purnia, and Inderjeet Jyotikar from Hathua.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Sinha from Tarapur and Lakhisarai constituencies, respectively, in the first list released for the high-stakes Bihar Assembly elections.
Amid reports of Bihar's NDA alliance facing internal tensions over seat-sharing, Union Minister and Hindustan Awam Morcha (Secular) leader Jitan Ram Manjhi on Tuesday justified the anger of JD(U), stating that the decision to field candidates from their quota lies with Nitish Kumar.
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) on Tuesday said that it will announce its candidates for the Bihar polls at a press conference, and the list it sent earlier in the day is not the final list of candidates.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday chaired the party's Central Election Committee (CEC) in Delhi to decide on the Bihar assembly election candidates.
The Hindustan Awam Morcha (Secular) on Tuesday announced the list of six candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, among whom four are sitting MLAs.
Even as Mahagathbandhan is still grappling with competing demands of its constituents and has not declared seat allocation, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) on Tuesday announced a list of 18 candidates for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections.
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) member Sanjiv Chaurasia expressed his gratitude to the party leadership on Tuesday after being awarded the ticket from the Digha seat for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections.
"The NDA alliance is completely united, as evident from the way our seats have been announced. By tonight, a final decision will also be made regarding the remaining seats. I am fully confident that we will cross the 200-seat mark in this assembly election," he said.