{"id":307422,"date":"2018-12-23T07:59:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T07:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307422"},"modified":"2018-12-23T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T07:59:20","slug":"bihar-seat-sharing-bjp-jdu-to-contest-17-seats-each-ljp-gets-6-in-2019-lok-sabha-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-seat-sharing-bjp-jdu-to-contest-17-seats-each-ljp-gets-6-in-2019-lok-sabha-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar Seat-Sharing: BJP, JD(U) to contest 17 seats each, LJP gets 6 in 2019 Lok Sabha elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307424 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bihar-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/bihar-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/bihar-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/bihar-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/bihar-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/bihar.jpg 895w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Nitish Kumar&#8217;s Janata Dal (United) will contest on 17 seats each and Ram Vilas Paswan\u2019s Lok Janshakti Party will contest on six seats for next year&#8217;s general elections in Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ram Vilas Paswan, his son Chirag and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held an hour-long meeting with BJP chief Amit\u00a0Shah at his residence in Delhi today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This announcement was made at a press conference on Sunday. It came two days after a meeting between Amit Shah and Ram Vilas Paswan and Chirag Paswan on the seat sharing deal ended on acceptable terms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP chief Amit Shah also said that Ram Vilas Paswan will contest for a Rajya Sabha seat from the NDA in the next Rajya Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Nitish Kumar&#8217;s Janata Dal (United) will contest on 17 seats each and Ram Vilas Paswan\u2019s Lok Janshakti Party will contest on six seats for next year&#8217;s general elections in Bihar. Ram Vilas Paswan, his son Chirag and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held an hour-long meeting with BJP chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[3974,1194,842,453,10385,2684,10384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307425,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307422\/revisions\/307425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}