Kanhaiya Kumar is CPI nominee from Begusarai

Patna | Monday | 25th March, 2019

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PATNA: Former JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar would contest from the Begusarai seat. Tanveer is not in contest,” Kanhaiya said at the press conference on Sunday. They might have had many things, including social equations and poll arithmetic regarding Begusarai, in their mind,” Kanhaiya said.Earlier, the RJD-led Grand Alliance had kept CPI out of the seat-sharing arrangement. Further, the party’s apex body would also decide if CPI should contest East Champaran (Motihari) and Madhubani where BJP has fielded its candidates.Singh also reiterated the party’s support to CPI(ML) and CPM in Ara and Ujiarpur, respectively. RJD had announced “one seat” to the CPI(ML) from its own quota to contest, though it did not mention the constituency.CPI state secretary Satya Narayan Singh said the party has also decided to contest from Khagaria and the central secretariat would decide the candidate for it on Monday..