RJD-JD-U-Congress alliance leads in Bihar bypoll

While RJD won Rajnagar, Chapra and Mohiuddinagar seats, Congress has won the Bhagalpur seat. In most of the other seats the alliance is ahead. BJP won the Narkatiaganj seat  in Bihar so far but going by trends is not doing well despite winning handsomely in the Lok Sabha polls this year.

Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JD-U) had joined hands to take on their common enemy Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state. On Aug 11, they had held their first rally together and were seen hugging each other at the event.

The duo, both former chief ministers of Bihar, had parted ways twenty years ago but once again came together to jointly fight the by-polls in 10 Assembly seats.

Both the parties entered into a seat-sharing agreement along with the Congress in which both JD-U and RJD had decided to contest in four seats each leaving two to the Congress in Bihar.

The BJP had won 32 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state in this year’s Lok Sabha election. It is contesting the by-election in nine seats leaving only one to its ally Ramvilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).

The by-elections in Bihar are being seen as the semi-finals ahead of the high-voltage state Assembly polls scheduled next year.