New Delhi: With the countdown to the announcement of the poll schedule starting, the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (Grand Alliance) is rushing to conclude a seat-sharing deal in Bihar, where coalition heavyweights RJD and Congress may end up giving up at least a dozen seats each, which they contested in 2020, to accommodate new entrants and balance the aspirations of other parties.

Hectic negotiations are on amid grandstanding by the allies but there is larger consensus that the final count will be known only after holding discussions on the pros and cons seat by seat. There is pressure on the RJD and the Congress to give up seats while smaller parties are seeking a bigger pie of seats.

The opposition coalition is upbeat after the success of ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ and believes that the JD(U)-BJP gove

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