AMN /
A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party announced a seat-sharing pact with allies for the Bihar assembly elections, Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party – NDA’s biggest ally in the state – said today that it was “shocked” and “taken aback” by the decision.
The LJP, which has been offered 40 seats, said the final announcement was different from what was offered to it initially.
LJP MP Chirag Paswan has also said that they have expressed their concerns to BJP chief Amit Shah and he has assured them that he will ‘honour’ them.
The LJP is disappointed with the formula that was applied in the case of Union minister Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) and the Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) of former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi for distribution of seats among these two parties were not applied to the LJP.
While the RLSP has got 23 seats, HAM managed to corner 20 seats in the alliance. The BJP had initially offered 18 seats to RLSP and 13 to HAM.