{"id":310756,"date":"2019-03-22T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310756"},"modified":"2019-03-22T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:00:37","slug":"grand-alliance-in-bihar-rjd-to-contest-20-seats-congress-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/grand-alliance-in-bihar-rjd-to-contest-20-seats-congress-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Alliance in Bihar; RJD to contest 20 seats, Congress 9"},"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-310757 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bihar-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/bihar-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/bihar-510x420.jpg 510w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/bihar.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The opposition Grand alliance in Bihar on Friday announced the seat-sharing formula under which Lalu Yadav&#8217;s RJD will contest 20 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats and the Congress on 9 while the smaller parties in the remaining constituencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">RJD Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Jha announced the seat-sharing deal in Bihar between the Congress and the RJD at the press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the agreement, Upendra Kushwaha\u2019s Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) will put up candidates in 5 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi\u2019s Hindustan Awam Morcha (HAM) and Mukesh Sahni\u2019s Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) in 3 each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Jha, Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) president Madan Mohan Jha, as well as RLSP, HAM and VIP leaders, were also present at the press conference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition Grand alliance in Bihar on Friday announced the seat-sharing formula under which Lalu Yadav&#8217;s RJD will contest 20 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats and the Congress on 9 while the smaller parties in the remaining constituencies. RJD Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Jha announced the seat-sharing deal in Bihar between the Congress and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[236,1384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310756"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310758,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310756\/revisions\/310758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}