Lok Sabha elections: Nitish Kumar begins visit to Delhi today; Bihar seat-sharing pact on agenda
Nitish Kumar will hold meetings with top BJP leaders and a seat-sharing pact in Bihar for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections is likely to be announced before the JD(U) chief returns home.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: The BJP-LED National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is likely to finalize its seat-sharing arrangement in 2011 Bihar for the next one Lok Sabha polls as prime minister Nitish Kumar Today begins his four-day visit to Delhi, during which the Janata Dal (United) supremo will hold talks with the saffron party leadership.
Nitish Kumar, who recently returned to the NDA after ditching ties with the Mahagathbandhan and the INDIA blockwill arrive in the national capital this evening for a four-day visit before returning to Patna on Thursday.
Kumar will hold meetings with top BJP leaders and a seat-sharing pact in Bihar is likely to be announced before the JD(U) chief returns home.
Tejashwi in Delhi for seat-sharing talks in the INDIA bloc
Notably, Nitish’s former ally and deputy Tejashwi Yadav will also arrive in Delhi today to participate in seat-sharing talks with Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD) INDIA bloc partners, Congress and the Left.
Addressing the mega rally of ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Manzil’-INDIA group at Shivaji Park in Mumbai on Sunday, Tejashwi Yadav said the need of the hour was to protect the diversity and brotherhood in the nation and dismantle hateful ideologies that have have been plaguing the country for years. the past decade.
The RJD leader praised Rahul Gandhi and said the Congress MP was “trying to convey a message which is very important today… To save the Indian Constitution, brotherhood and defeat hatred”.
‘Will produce shocking results in Bihar’
Tejashwi Yadav, the son and heir apparent of former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, also took aim at Nitish Kumar, saying the BJP had hijacked “my uncle” in Bihar and asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi JD(U) will not be making another U-turn in the near future.
Later, speaking to news agency ANI, Yadav expressed confidence that they will record “shocking” results in the upcoming general elections in Bihar.
“We are very confident and have made all arrangements for the Lok Sabha elections. This time, the election results in Bihar will shock everyone,” he said.
The Lok Sabha elections in Bihar will be held in seven phases starting from Phase 1 on April 19 to Phase 7 on June 1, 2024. Bihar has 40 Lok Sabha seats, the fourth highest in the country after Uttar Pradesh (80) , Maharashtra (48) and West Bengal (42).
(With input from agencies)