JMM leaders, Sudivya Kumar, second from left, and Vinod Kumar Pandey, third from proper, with RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav, at his residence in Patna on October 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The delegation included the Jharkhand authorities’s Urban Development Minister Sudivya Kumar and JMM central normal secretary Vinod Pandey. Sources within the social gathering stated that each leaders pressed for the demand of seven seats and that the JMM submitted a listing as nicely. Backing their demand, the JMM leaders stated that the RJD had been allotted six Assembly seats within the Jharkhand elections held in November 2024.
Out of 81 Assembly seats, the RJD was supplied six and gained 4 within the Jharkhand Assembly elections. When the Hemant Soren authorities was shaped, RJD’s Godda MLA Sanjay Prasad Yadav was additionally supplied a Cabinet put up.
According to JMM sources, the social gathering desires to contest in Chakai, Banka, Katoria, Tarapur, Purnea, Manihari, and Dhamdhaha Assembly seats. Out of those seven, the RJD had completed second in 5 seats — Banka, Katoria, Chakai, Tarapur, and Dhamdhaha — within the 2020 Assembly elections, whereas the Congress gained Manihari and completed second in Purnea.
Out of 243 Assembly seats in Bihar, 203 are normal, 38 reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC), and two seats — Katoria and Manihari — reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST).
Senior RJD leaders together with Abdul Bari Siddiqui, Bhola Yadav, RJD’s Jharkhand in-charge Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav, and RJD State unit president Mangani Lal Mandal had been additionally current in the course of the assembly.
While chatting with The Hindu on Wednesday (October 8, 2025), Mr. Pandey stated, “The assembly with Tejashwi ji was held in a cordial method, and we knowledgeable the RJD chief in regards to the constituencies the place JMM can carry out higher. At current, I can’t reveal the variety of seats, however a choice will quickly be taken after our chief, Chief Minister Hemant Soren ji, speaks to Lalu Prasad ji and Tejashwi ji.”
Sources within the RJD stated that the social gathering has agreed on two seats — Chakai and Katoria — to JMM, conserving the brand new alliance companions in thoughts, which embrace Vikassheel Insaan Party’s Mukesh Sahani and Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party’s Pashupati Kumar Paras.
During the Jharkhand Assembly elections, the then-Congress president Rajesh Thakur had performed the function of mediator when the RJD had threatened to contest alone if not given its desired variety of seats. At that point, the RJD had demanded seven seats.
A senior JMM chief stated that the Jharkhand Chief Minister has as soon as once more requested Mr. Thakur to convey a message to the Bihar Congress and RJD to put aside their egos earlier than reaching a consensus.
“If JMM will get a fair proportion of seats, our Chief Minister and his spouse, Kalpana Soren ji, will marketing campaign for the INDIA bloc candidates in Bihar. They are crowd-pullers in comparison with different Opposition Chief Ministers, lots of whom hardly ever ship speeches in Hindi — be it from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, or Kerala. Hence, it will be good to maintain JMM in good humour,” a JMM chief stated, requesting anonymity.
Published – October 08, 2025 09:39 pm IST
