Patna, August 07: With Bihar Assembly elections fast approaching, ruling NDA partners and Opposition RJD-LJP alliance are likely to find the issue of seat-sharing a thorny affair with major partners eyeing the lion’s share.
Other parties like the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party have decided to go it alone in all the 243 seats.
The Samajwadi Party and Left parties — CPI-ML(L), CPI, and CPI-M — are yet to decide the number of seats they would contest either alone or in alliance.
Given the high political stakes, coalition partners JD(U) and BJP are treading cautiously on the crucial issue of seat-sharing.
Snubbed by senior partner and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after his photograph appeared with his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi in an advertisement in June, the BJP leadership is grappling with internal party squabbles.
–PTI