Congress gears up for legislative council polls in Bihar

PATNA: State Congress president Madan Mohan Jha on Friday left for New Delhi to discuss the number of seats his party will contest in the upcoming legislative council election.
Sources said Jha is expected to meet Bihar incharge Bhakta Charan Das and other senior party leaders on Saturday in this regard. Though the number of seats Congress will claim has not become clear, party’s state spokesperson Rajesh Rathorre said they will demand a respectable number of seats from the RJD, or else will contest alone the way they did in the recently concluded assembly election for Tarapur and Kusheshwar Asthan seats.Election for 24 vacant council seats from the panchayati raj and local urban body constituencies will be held in the state.
Sources in the RJD said the party has already finalised nearly 16 candidates and they have started the campaign in their respective areas. When asked about the number of seats RJD will give to other alliance partners, its spokesperson Chitranjan Gagan replied, “One thing is clear that it is Mahagathbandhan which will contest the election and not a particular party.”