Battleground Bihar: Seat War Heats Up

With the Bihar Assembly elections officially announced, both alliances - the ruling NDA and the opposition Grand Alliance - remain caught in last-minute power tussles over seat-sharing. In Patna, the BJP's election committee, led by Dharmendra Pradhan and State President Dilip Jaiswal, is expected to finalise most candidates today, even as Nitish Kumar's JD(U) holds parallel discussions. Across the aisle, the Congress and RJD continue negotiations amid growing pressure from Left allies like the CPI(ML), which insists on a "respectable" share of seats citing its past electoral success