Patna: Even though the Mahagathbandhan has not yet formally announced the seat-sharing formula for the Bihar Assembly Election, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is allotting its symbol to its candidates, as October 17 is the last day to file the nominations for the first phase of the elections slated for November 6.

One such RJD nominee is Karishma Rai, the cousin of party leader Tejashwi Yadav’s elder brother Tej Pratap’s estranged wife Aishwarya Rai.

A dentist by profession, Karishma will be the RJD nominee for the Parsa seat in Saran district, from where her grandfather Daroga Prasad Rai became a Congress MLA for the first time in 1952 and later became Bihar Chief Minister in 1970.

Aishwarya’s father, Chandrika Rai, won from Parsa, the family stronghold, for the first time in 1985 as t

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