‘We got seats we did not ask for’ — Congress leaders upset over Bihar seat-sharing deal with RJD

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Patna: The Congress is learnt to be upset about the alleged raw deal it has got from Lalu Prasad Yadavs RJD in the seat-sharing arrangement in Bihar for the Lok Sabha polls..

The two parties are allies in the Mahagathbandhan that also comprises the Left Front in Bihar, and are also part of the INDIA bloc at the national level...

We had not asked for Patna Sahib or Maharajganj, Congress leader Nikhil Kumar a former Delhi Police chief who has also served as Aurangabad MP and governor of Nagaland and Kerala told ThePrint Friday...

The names of the constituencies and the alliance partners who would contest in them were declared, but the press conference in Patna Friday came to an abrupt end when journalists asked questions about the fate of aspiring Congress candidates Nikhil Kumar from Aurangabad, Kanhaiya Kumar from Begusarai and Rajesh Ranjan, alias Pappu Yadav, from Purnia...

According to the agreement between the parties, the RJD will contest on 26 seats, the Congress in nine, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) in three and the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in one each...

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