Bihar Assembly Elections LIVE: Congress seeks 70 seats, RJD offers 58; discussions drag on in Mahagatbandhan

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Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, party president Mallikarjun Kharge and LoP in Bihar Legislative Assembly and RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav. File | Photo Credit: ANI

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led Mahagatbandhan (grand alliance) failed to announce its seat-sharing formula for the upcoming Bihar Assembly election on Monday (October 13, 2025), despite at least two rounds of meetings between the top leadership of RJD and Congress in the national capital.

The ruling NDA on Sunday (October 12, 2025) had announced the number of seats that it would be contesting with its top constituents — BJP and JD(U) — for the first time placing each other on equal terms. Both will contest 101 seats in the State, which has a 243-member Assembly.

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RJD president Lalu Prasad on Monday gave away party tickets to candidates favoured by him, unfazed by the inability of the INDIA bloc to formally announce a plan for seat-sharing.

It was not known exactly how many candidates got the party ticket, on a day when filing of nominations for the second and final phase of polls began, and only four days were left for candidates of the first leg to submit their papers.

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