New Delhi: In the pre-election seat sharing, the Congress is fast getting squeezed by its allies, losing out on UPA’s leadership position in one state after the other.
After Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, it’s now Bihar where the national party has been given just three seats
Congress is so far staying away from the announcenment but its woes may continue in Maharashtra as well.
Railway Minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad, aware of his compulsions of votebank politics, has cleverly embraced Lok Janshakti Party’s Ram Vilas Paswan.
Paswan's LJP will now fight on 12 seats, up four seats from eight last time while RJD made a token concession, it came down one seat to 25. The Congress was the hardest hit, given only three out of forty, only the ones the party won last time.
While Congress stayed away from the seat sharing announcement, it declared it would contest twenty of the 40 seats alone.
But Lalu was clear about his agenda. “If Congress is unhappy, my brother-in-law (Sadhu Yadav) is also unhappy,” he said.
But Lalu didn't grant Sadhu Yadav his wish and didn't give him the seat he wanted.
It's Bihar’s simple caste equation that has forced an uneasy alliance in Bihar. Lalu’s traditional votebank of Muslims and Yadavs needs Paswan's Dalits to put up a fight against a resurgent Nitish Kumar and the BJP.
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