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Bihar elections 2025: The political temperature is soaring in Bihar over the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections as parties have started releasing candidate lists. Chirag Paswan's party, LJP (Ram Vilas) started distributing symbols to candidates. Paswan announced four candidates and gave them symbols to contest the elections on Wednesday.

Why Dispute Over Mahua Seat?

Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) chief Upendra Kushwaha and Paswan are at loggerheads over the Mahua seat in Vaishali district. Kushwaha reportedly wants to field his son in the Mahua constituency. However, the seat reportedly went into the kitty of the LJP (Paswan). Kushwaha has been adamant on the seat, and he met Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking the seat. However, the suspense over the Mahua seat continued as Paswan did not mention it in the list.

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NDA Seat-Sharing For Bihar Polls Announced

Earlier, on October 12, the ruling NDA in Bihar finalised its seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming polls to the 243-member assembly, in which Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) and the BJP will contest 101 constituencies each, leaving the rest for smaller allies.

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The announcement to the effect came on X handles of JD(U) working president Sanjay Kumar Jha, Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Samrat Choudhary and Union minister Chirag Paswan, whose Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) settled with a deal of 29 seats.

The Hindustani Awam Morcha of Jitan Ram Manjhi, who had been insisting on "at least 15 seats", was given only six constituencies, while the remaining six assembly segments went to Rajya Sabha MP Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Morcha.

This is the first assembly poll since CM Nitish Kumar spearheaded the NDA to end the 15-year reign of the RJD-led government in Bihar in 2005, that his JD(U) will not be contesting more seats than the BJP in alliance, a clear signal of the acknowledgement within the ruling bloc of the regional party's decline and the BJP's growing heft.  

(With PTI/Jagran.com Inputs)

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