RLSP may get the boot; CPI (ML), CPI and CPI (M) together will get two dozen seats
The Rashtriya Janata Dal-led (RJD) mahagatbandhan (‘grand alliance’) is close to finalising seat distribution among its alliance partners. If the RJD has its way, then Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) is unlikely to continue in the alliance.
Sources indicated that the RJD being the senior partner in the alliance will keep close to 140 seats out of the 243 Assembly seats. The Congress, which had been demanding for over 90 seats, agreed to climb down and might get close to 70 odd seats. In 2015, the Congress had fought on 42 seats, including a couple of Janata Dal-United (JD-U) candidates who fought on the Congress symbol.
All the three Left parties — the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML); the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M); and the Communist…