Bihar Legislative Council polls slated for July 6
Patna:
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Thursday authorized the party’s national president, Lalu Prasad Yadav, to nominate candidates for the Bihar Legislative Council elections scheduled for July 6.
The decision was made at the RJD Parliament and Legislative Party meeting, RJD Bihar unit chief Jagadanand Singh told reporters.
He said that Lalu Prasad Yadav had been authorized to nominate three candidates for the election to nine seats in the Council, whose timetable was declared by the Election Commission.
The nine seats in the constituency of Vidhan Sabha (Assembly) became vacant on May 6 after the expiration of the terms of the respective members. The seats were occupied by the JD (U) -BJP combine.
Out of the nine Council seats, RJD can win three seats depending on its strength of 80 members in the Assembly.
Singh said Lalu Prasad Yadav will also nominate candidates for four seats in each of the graduate and teacher ridings.
The election date for these eight vacant seats has not yet been announced, however.
The EC announced on Monday that a notification for the nine seats in the constituency of Vidhan Sabha will be published on June 18, June 25 being the last date for the nomination papers. Voting will take place on July 6 and votes will be counted on the same day.
Senior leaders Rabri Devi, Jagadanand Singh, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and Alok Mehta spoke.
Those who attended observed a minute of silence in memory of the army men who were killed in clashes with Chinese troops in Ladakh on Monday.
After the death of RJD deputy Abdul Gafoor in January, the effective membership of the Assembly, which has 243 members, is currently 242.
The ruling NDA has 126 seats in the Assembly, with 70 seats for the JD (U), 54 for the BJP and two for the LJP of Ram Vilas Paswan.
The Grand Opposition Alliance has 106 seats in the Assembly, with the RJD at 80 and the 26 in Congress.
For its support, the Grand Alliance can also welcome the IPC (ML) with three deputies, the AIMIM of Asaduddin Owaisi, who won his first victory in Bihar in a by-election last year, and former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, founding president of HAM and his only member of the assembly.
In the 75-member Legislative Council, 27 seats are currently vacant. Seventeen of them belong to the ridings of Vidhan Sabha, Graduate and Teachers. Ten people should be appointed to the upper house, to whom the government must respond.
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