NEW DELHI: A seat-sharing deal has but to be introduced by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led Mahagathbandhan, regardless of the final date for nomination for the primary section of Bihar meeting elections inching nearer. Nevertheless, RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday jumped the gun and gave away occasion tickets to candidates favored by him.A big crowd gathered outdoors Lalu’s residence after he reached Patna from Delhi, the place he had appeared earlier than a court docketBased on information company PTI, aspirants who apparently acquired cellphone calls from the occasion started pouring in, solely to emerge minutes later with the occasion image of their fingers and a broad smile on their faces.Distinguished amongst those that received RJD symbols have been Sunil Singh (Parbatta), who give up chief minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) final week, and Narendra Kumar Singh alias Bogo, a several-term former MLA from Matihani, who had received the seat twice for the occasion headed by the CM.These leaders’ candidature is being seen as a part of the technique of Tejashwi Yadav, the RJD supremo’s son and inheritor obvious, to win over a bit of Bhumihars, a robust higher caste that has historically supported the BJP-led NDA.Nevertheless, the occasion symbols have been reportedly taken again from the leaders.This isn’t the primary time Lalu has distributed tickets to his occasion leaders with out a nod from alliance companions. Forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, he had given tickets to a number of RJD leaders properly earlier than. CongressRJD, and Left events had reached a seat-sharing settlement. Nevertheless, the alliance companions finally fell in line.This comes as Lalu’s son Tejashwi met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi on Monday night and is realized to have mentioned a seat-sharing association forward of the Bihar meeting polls. Congress basic secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal and the occasion’s in-charge for Bihar, Krishna Allavaru, have been current through the assembly at Kharge’s residence, PTI reported, citing sources.Sources mentioned Tejashwi Yadav had earlier held discussions with Allavaru and Venugopal, the place Bihar Congress chief Rajesh Ram and CLP chief within the Bihar Vidhan Sabha Shakeel Ahmad Khan have been additionally current.The Mahagathbandhan in Bihar is more likely to finalize seat-sharing within the subsequent few days and will announce its candidates together with a joint manifesto this week. The Congress is more likely to get fewer seats than final time attributable to its dismal efficiency within the 2020 meeting polls, when it received 19 out of the 70 seats it contested. The RJD contested 144 seats and bagged 75 within the 243-member meeting.On the opposite facet, BJP state in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday introduced that JD(U) and BJP will contest 101 seats every; Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Occasion (Ram Vikas) on 29 seats; and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) of Jitan Ram Manjhi and the Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) of Upendra Kushwaha will contest six seats every.Bihar meeting polls are slated in two phases on November 6 and 11, and the counting of votes will probably be carried out on November 14. The submitting of nominations started on October 10 for the primary section, through which 121 seats will go to the polls.(With company inputs)