{"id":327298,"date":"2020-10-06T13:12:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327298"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:12:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:12:48","slug":"bihar-polls-bjp-jdu-lock-seat-sharing-bjp-gets-121-seats-jdu-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-polls-bjp-jdu-lock-seat-sharing-bjp-gets-121-seats-jdu-122\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar polls: BJP-JD(U) lock seat sharing, BJP gets 121 seats, JD(U) 122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-327299 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/bihar-polls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/bihar-polls.jpg 683w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/bihar-polls-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Nitish Kumar&#8217;s Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday announced the seat-sharing arrangement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Announcing the seat sharing plan, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would contest 121 seats while Janata Dal (United) or JD(U) would contest 122 seats in the 243-member assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The JD(U) has given seven of its seats to Jitan Ram Majhi&#8217;s Hindustan Awam Morcha (HAM).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The JD(U) chief further said that talks between the BJP and Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) of Mukesh Nishad are in the final stages. The BJP will allot seats to VIP from\u00a0its quota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">State BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal emphasized that the BJP-JD(U) alliance is intact. \u201cNitish Kumar has been named the leader of NDA in Bihar and he will be the chief minister,\u201d added Jaiswal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first phase of three-phased voting will take place on October 28.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Nitish Kumar&#8217;s Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday announced the seat-sharing arrangement. Announcing the seat sharing plan, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would contest 121 seats while Janata Dal (United) or JD(U) would contest 122 seats in the 243-member assembly. The JD(U) has given seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":327299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[13558,453,3531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327298"}],"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=327298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327300,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327298\/revisions\/327300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}