"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.
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.
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.
Amid growing speculation over rifts within the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) after seat-sharing discussions, Union Minister and JD(U) leader Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh, on Tuesday, once again reaffirmed that the NDA remains united under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar,
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.
"The opposition knows that they are losing the election. They are planting stories, spreading rumours about what is going on in the NDA. Nitish Kumar is absolutely happy. He is ready for the elections. He will campaign for the NDA. He is keeping an eye on everything. He is talking to the
"The NDA is united under Nitish Kumar's leadership and will contest the elections under his leadership. Nitish Kumar is the universally accepted leader of the NDA, and we are contesting the elections under his leadership," Rajiv Ranjan Singh said.
Ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls in Bihar, state Congress in-charge Krishna Allavaru asserted that the talks were ongoing on seat sharing in the Mahagathbandhan, and the effort was to form a good government without any rift within the alliance.
Constituents of Mahagathbandhan continued their deliberations and consultations to resolve the stalemate over seat distribution on Monday, with the NDA constituents, BJP and JD-U, gearing up to release their list of candidates.