Bihar Elections 2025: The warm-up for the Bihar Assembly elections 2025 has started. Voting is to be held on 121 seats in the first phase on November 6 and the notification has been issued. Now the real script of the electoral wrestle is to be written in Delhi on Sunday. The meetings to be held today are stuff tabbed 'Super Sunday' in political circles, considering both the teams contending for power—NDA and the Mahagathbandhan are rented deciding their final strategy.
Brainstorming intensifies from Patna to Delhi
Rabri Devi's residence in Patna hosted an important meeting of RJD's cadre committee late on Saturday night. In this meeting, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav, and other senior leaders had a lengthy discussion on seat and ticket distribution. Sources indicate that Tejashwi Yadav will meet Congress leaders in Delhi today to finalize the syndication formula.
NDA's Movement in Delhi
NDA's strategic meetings are standing in Delhi. BJP President J.P. Nadda. An eight-hour-long meeting took place at Nadda's residence on Saturday, in which Home Minister Amit Shah and leaders of all NDA constituents from Bihar were present. The seat sharing and names of the candidates are likely to be finalized in the NDA Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting this morning.
According to sources, the possible formula is as follows:
- BJP and JDU: 101–102 seats
- LJP (Chirag): 26 seats
- HAM (Jitan Ram Manjhi): 8 seats
- RLM (Upendra Kushwaha): 7 seats
The NDA has moreover made it well-spoken that Nitish Kumar will be the Chief Ministerial candidate.
The Mahagathbandhan remains undecided
A final consensus on seat-sharing within the Mahagathbandhan has not yet been reached. According to sources, the possible formula is as follows:
- RJD: 134–135 seats
- Congress: 54–55 seats
- CPI-ML and CPI: approximately 30 seats
- VIP: 18 seats
- JMM and RLJP: 2 seats each
However, Congress is willful on taxing an spare 10 seats, while CPI-ML has once rejected Tejashwi's proposal. Disagreements moreover persist over some seats in Seemanchal. If negotiations fail, RJD is preparing to races 138 seats alone.
Why is 'Super Sunday' Important?
Today could determine the direction of the Bihar elections.
- Strategy Finalized: Both alliances will decide when and how to signify seats and candidates.
- Final Approval: The seating formula will be tried by Prime Minister Modi, Amit Shah, and top leaders at the NDA CEC meeting in Delhi.
- Mahagathbandhan's decisive meeting: Today's meeting between Tejashwi Yadav and Rahul Gandhi is stuff considered a true test of the opposition alliance's unity.
- These meetings in Delhi unmistakably indicate that Bihar's politics has reached a decisive turning point.
