Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The bugle of Lok Sabha elections 2024 has been sounded and preparations for the fight on 40 seats in Bihar have also intensified. Their candidates are being fielded by NDA and Grand Alliance. Voting is to be held in 7 phases in Bihar. Voting is to be held on 4 seats of Bihar in the first phase. The first phase of the contest is to be held on Jamui, Gaya, Nawada and Aurangabad seats. NDA has announced candidates for all four seats. Whereas, amid the seat sharing issue in the Grand Alliance, RJD has also fielded candidates on these seats.
Voting in the first phase on 4 seats of Bihar
Voting is to be held on 4 seats of Bihar in the first phase. Voting will be held in the first phase on the seats of Jamui, Aurangabad, Nawada and Gaya on 19 April 2024. The issue of seat sharing in the Grand Alliance has not been resolved yet. However, in Delhi on Holi, Tejashwi Yadav has claimed that RJD, Congress and Left parties will contest the elections together and there is no dispute on seat sharing. There is a meeting of top leaders of RJD and Congress in Delhi on Wednesday also. Before this, RJD has decided candidates for many seats including the first phase seat and has given them symbols. NDA has also decided candidates for all four seats in the first phase. After which now he has to compete with RJD candidates.
There was a fight over the seat.
Kumar Sarvjeet has been made the RJD candidate for Gaya parliamentary seat, who has been a minister in the state government. Whereas from the NDA side we have the party’s candidate Jitan Ram Manjhi. In the year 2004, RJD candidate Rajesh Manjhi had won from this seat. After that, in 2009 and 2014, Hari Manjhi of BJP won and Vijay Manjhi of JDU won in 2019 elections. This time there will be a contest between NDA’s Jitan Ram Manjhi and RJD’s Kumar Sarvjeet from the Grand Alliance.
Contest for Nawada seat..
Like Gaya, RJD last tasted victory in Nawada parliamentary seat in 2004. At that time RJD was in power in Bihar and Veerchand Paswan became MP from RJD. After that, in 2009, Bhola Singh won from BJP and in the year 2014, BJP candidate Giriraj Singh won. Chandan Singh, who was LJP’s candidate in 2019, won for NDA. This time, if we talk about NDA in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, BJP has made Vivek Thakur and RJD has made Shravan Kushwaha its candidate.
Who will win in Jamui?
This time Jamui Lok Sabha seat has gone to Chirag Paswan’s party LJP (Ram Vilas) in NDA and Arun Bharti has become the candidate. Whereas in the grand alliance, RJD has made Archana Ravidas its candidate and given her the symbol. In the last three Lok Sabha elections, NDA has hoisted its flag of victory here. JDU candidate Bhudev Choudhary won this seat which came into existence after delimitation in 2009. After that, Chirag Paswan became MP by winning from here in 2014 and 2019. Now there will be a fight this time between LJP (Ram Vilas) and RJD.
RJD in contest for the first time in Aurangabad..
For the first time, RJD has fielded its candidate from Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat to try its luck. RJD is fielding its candidate for the first time on this seat. RJD has given the symbol for here to Abhay Kushwaha, who left JDU and joined RJD. Nikhil Kumar of Congress had won the 2004 elections and became MP. He has been winning elections on this seat since 2009. He won first by becoming a JDU and then a BJP candidate. This time Aurangabad seat is with BJP in NDA and only Sushil Singh has been fielded. He will face competition from RJD candidate.