Tejaswi Yadav was declared chief of the ministerial side of the Grand Alliance on Saturday.
Patna:
One of the smaller opposition coalition parties in Bihar could not hide its resentment as the seat-sharing deal for the upcoming assembly polls was announced on Saturday, coming out in the middle of the press conference and alleging that they had been “deceived”.
The Vikassheel Insaan or VIP party led by Mukesh Mallah said they had been promised 25 seats and the post of deputy chief minister.
“We have been deceived,” said Mallah, dramatically emerging from the press conference that brought together coalition chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), leaders of Congress and left.
He later tweeted in Hindi: “Today the RJD stabbed the Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) community in the back. Despite being from the EBC community, the RJD betrayed the whole group and the VIP party condemns this. People are going to teach the RJD a lesson in these elections. “
RJD leaders, however, said no such promises had been made to the party and added such “theaters”.
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Launched in 2018, the VIP hasn’t won a single election so far. Mr Mallah sided with the BJP in 2015 when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU), the RJD and Congress won the state election.
Later, after Mr. Kumar split from the Grand Alliance, Mr. Mallah sided with the opposition bloc but was unable to win a single of the three seats he contested in the election. from 2019.
The opposition coalition announced its seat-sharing pact on Saturday, naming Tejashwi Yadav as the main cabinet candidate and giving his party 144 seats out of 243. Congress will compete in 70 and leftist parties 29 while Jharkhand Mukti Morcha will get seats from the RJD quota.
Bihar will vote on October 28, November 3 and 7 for a new government and the results will be announced on November 10. The country’s biggest election in the coronavirus crisis will come with many changes, including an extra hour of voting and no physical contact during the campaign.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who heads the ruling coalition in the state with the BJP, hopes to win a fourth term with the RJD opposition of jailed former chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and Congress – his partners in the last election – the defiant.
