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The RJD chief released the list of candidates in Patna but left without taking any questions.
The RJD had initially stitched an alliance with Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP under which Prasad's party was to contest 25 of Bihar's 40 seats while LJP 12. The rest of the three seats were left for Congress.
However, after the Congress rejected the offer and resolved to contest 37 seats on its own sparing the two seats, Saran and Pataliputra, for its two allies, Lalu fielded his party's candidates even in the three seats won by the Congress in the previous Lok Sabha polls.
Lalu is trying his luck from Saran while LJP supremo is contesting from Pataliputra.
The RJD's list includes Union Ministers Taslimuddin (Kishanganj), Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (Vaishali), Akhilesh Prasad Singh (Purvi Champaran), Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav (Bbanka), Kanti Singh (Karakat), Raghunath Jha (Valmikinagar) and M A A Fatmi (Darbhanga).
Prasad fielded Lalan Paswan, who resigned as JD(U) member in the state assembly and switched over to RJD on Sunday, against union minister and Congress nominee Meira Kumar from Sasaram (SC).
Similarly, state president Abdul Bari Siddiqui would be contesting against Union Minister of State for Home and Congress candidate Shakeel Ahmed in Madhubani.
RJD's spokesman and MLA Shakeel Ahmed Khan would take on sitting Congress MP and retired IPS officer Nikhil Kumar from Aurangabad, Prasad added.
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Opportunism continues to flow free and shamelessly. The election scene is getting murkier as it is stirred by India's scoundrels who are vote hunting to return to POWER for their benefit !
LALOO SHOULD NOW RESIGN FROM THE UNION CABINET AND PROVE HE PRACTICES WHAT HE SAYS LALOO COME ON DO IT IMMEDIATELY.
It is good that this unholy alliance between the Congress and RJD is over. RJD, Samajwadi Party and BSP are the top three evils in Indian politics who are dominating in the so called cow and criminal belt. Their emergence has marginalized national parties like the Congress and BJP and created a serious vaccum in the Indian body politic. Congress has already become irrelevant in UP, Bihar, Tamilnadu and many other states. However, onething is not clear how Lalu is continuing as a cabinet minister in the centre. At this state, his party's support to the UPA at the Centre has no meaning since elections have already been announced. Let the people of Bihar, if they are left with any conviction, give a befitting reply to Lalu by defeating all his candidates and giving a thumping majority to the NDA. Sometimes, Bihari's claim that Gandhiji started his movement from Champaran and rightly so because exploitation was at its peak there. Now anarchy is there in Bihar and let them stop it.
Nothing to be surpirsed at all. The Ulta Pulta Alliance(UPA) was formed just to grab power. Now the actual character of the UPA is opned up before the people. The Common minimum programme(CMP) is to fight against each other in the election and make the voter fool and stay together after the election for power.
The Media is blowing up too big about the break-up of alliance between the RJD/LJP and Congress in Bihar and the adverse impact it would have on the elections. Congress has long ceased to be a force to reckon with in Bihar and is only a marginal player. Its strategy of fielding candidates in 37 seats can only benefit the RJD/LJP combine as it would cut into the forward caste vote bank of the Nitish/BJP combine. All said and done, it is advantage Lalu in Bihar and he is in for a major come back in the State, the result of which would even herald the break-up of alliance between the JDU and BJP in the days to come.
It is sad that you seem to be almost taking pleasure in Lalu coming back to power. The guy complete destroyed Bihar and condemned it to the dark ages and you seem to want it to come to power? Nitish is doing a fantastic job in Bihar and for the sake of the people of Bihar it is better that NDA comes back. But knowing your leftist / congressi credentials, you will only support people like lalu. Accept it that UPA is going down in UP, Bihar and Jharkhand.
Why people In bihar even support Laloo? he has runied the state for over a decade, he is one of the most corrupt politician on this earth, BJP should Go all out and defeat these illiterate goons
Its unfortunate Cong
Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav should have done this long back atleast now he has done it .It is better late than ever. Well done Laloo you are a shrewd politician you have seen the writing on the wall.
Dear Laluji it is fine to part with congress. However do not understand why you are stillwith UPA and not submitted resignation. It is double standared which I am afraid that voters of Bihar all aware of the same