2024-03-23 03:07:51
Patna: Former Communist Party of India (CPI) MLA Awadhesh Rai will be the Grand Alliance candidate from Begusarai Lok Sabha seat in Bihar. CPI general secretary D Raja made this announcement here on Friday. Raja also made it clear that his party wants at least one more seat from Bihar out of the 40 Lok Sabha seats, but he did not reveal much about it. Raja admitted to meeting Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President Lalu Prasad during the day and his son and former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday evening.
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When asked about the Grand Alliance not yet declaring the ‘formula’ for seat sharing in Bihar, he said that the Grand Alliance is united in Bihar. It is noteworthy that the nomination of Rai, who hails from the Other Backward Class (OBC) community and was a two-time MLA from Bachhwada, as its candidate indicates the intention of Left ally RJD to make the most of its “Muslim-Yadav” support base. . Except in 2009 when Janata Dal United’s Monajir Hasan won the Begusarai seat, candidates from the upper caste Bhumihar community have always been elected from this seat.
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Seat in BJP’s possession
Union Minister Giriraj Singh is currently the MP from Begusarai and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can make him a candidate from here again. In the year 2019, Singh had won the Begusarai Lok Sabha seat by a margin of more than four lakh votes. However, former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar was the CPI candidate in that election. Singh had a tough fight with Kumar. There was a triangular contest on this seat as RJD’s Tanveer Hasan got around two lakh votes.