Tejashwi Yadav To Lead Opposition In Bihar, Gets 144 Seats, Congress 70 | Read
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav will be the Chief Ministerial candidate for the opposition coalition in Bihar and his party has been allotted 144 seats out of 243 in the upcoming state elections after negotiations in the Grand Alliance. The Congress will contest in 70 and Left parties 29 while the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha will get seats from the RJD quota, the alliance announced on Saturday. Upset with the division, one of the smaller parties in the coalition, the VIP party, walked out of the grouping saying they had been "cheated".
