BJP to contest on all sitting seats in Bihar MLC polls

Patna: The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is planning to contest the MLC election in Bihar on all its sitting seats and the party is finalising candidates for 13 MLC seats out of 24 in the State and it will leave 11 seats for its ally Janata Dal (United).

Bihar BJP President and Lok Sabha MP Sanjay Jaiswal said, “Yes, we have discussed with Central leadership for local body MLC elections, how many seats will go to the alliance partner but the final decision will be taken by party high command, not by the state unit.”

“But one thing I want to clarify is that all is well in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and there is no dispute for the upcoming MLC election in Bihar with JDU.

Some sections of people are trying to create a rift between BJP-JDU but they will not succeed in their mission because our alliance is tried and tested and running a coalition government in Bihar for more than 15 years,” said Jaiswal.

Under the banner of NDA, BJP wants to contest on 13 seats while JDU on 11 seats but JD-U wants to contest on 50-50 formula. —With inputs from ANI