Cracks seen in Bihar Grand Alliance: Congress announces candidates for bypolls
The Congress has fielded candidates for the upcoming bypolls to Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur seats in Bihar after the RJD refused to withdraw its candidates. The grand old party has fielded Atitek Kumar from Kusheshwar Asthan (SC reserved) and Rajesh Kumar Mishra from Tarapur.
Earlier on Sunday, RJD had announced Ganesh Bharti and Arun Kumar from Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur seats respectively. The bypolls to both the seats will be held on October 30 and the results will be declared four days later on November 3.
Congress was demanding from RJD to leave the Kusheshwar Asthan seat. But the RJD refused. The Congress staked its claim on the seat as it contested the 2020 elections, though it lost around 7,000 seats.
Meanwhile, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that the ruling NDA in the state, of which his JD(U) is a constituent, will win the bypolls to Tarapur and Kusheshwar Asthan assembly seats.
The CM said, “NDA will win elections in both the constituencies without any difficulty. Both the seats were won by JD(U) in last year’s assembly elections. People have seen our work, they will vote for us.”
JD(U)’s Awadh Bhushan Hazari and Rajiv Kumar Singh are the two National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidates for the Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur assembly seats respectively.
Tarapur fell vacant after JD(U) MLA Mewa Lal Chaudhary died of COVID-19. The party’s candidate from the seat is Kumar’s old lieutenant. Kusheshwar is the son of Asthan candidate MLA Shashi Bhushan Hazari, who breathed his last at a Delhi hospital while undergoing treatment for Hepatitis B.
Apart from the BJP and the JD(U), former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and Mukesh Sahni’s Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) are the two other constituents of the NDA in Bihar.
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