PATNA: After high drama from Patna to Delhi for several days, RJD and Congress on Tuesday sealed the seat-sharing deal in the Mahagathbandhan for the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar . The seats would probably be announced in Patna on Wednesday. However, the decision on one seat is still pending, sources said.“Seat sharing among the grand alliance (GA) partners have been amicably finalized. It was done after seat-to-seat mutual discussion among the partners,” AICC in charge for Bihar, Shaktisinh Gohil, told TOI. He, however, declined to give details saying RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav had been authorized to brief media about the seats to be contested by the GA constituents.Gohil said Tejashwi would hold a joint press conference in Patna in the presence of state Congress president Madan Mohan Jha. However, Tejashwi is yet to announce the date and venue of the press conference.Sources in GA said Congress scaled down its demand from 11 seats to nine to reach an agreement with Lalu Prasad’s RJD.As per the agreement, sources said, RJD and Congress will contest 19 and nine seats, respectively while former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha’s RLSP has been given four seats, Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM(S) two, Sharad Yadav’ LJD two and Mukesh Sahni’s Vikassheel Insaan Party one seat. CPI(ML) has also been given two seats, sources said.Sources said the two seats which Congress agreed to leave were offered to CPI(ML), which has already declared Raju Yadav as its candidate from Ara. Interestingly, the CPI, which wanted to field former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar from Begusarai, could not be accommodated in the grand alliance. However, talks are on to give space to the CPI in the GA, sources said.RLSP, sources said, has been offered Karakat, Ujiarpur and Purvi Champaran (Motihari). Its fourth seat would be either Sitamarhi or Valmikinagar.HAM(S) has been offered Gaya (SC) and Aurangabad. Manjhi on Tuesday declared that he would file his nomination papers from Gaya on March 25. Sources said HAM(S) has decided to field JD(U)’s former MLC Upendra Prasad from Aurangabad.In a quick political development, Upendra on Tuesday left the ruling JD(U) and joined HAM(S).

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