Bihar News: All 11 candidates for the Bihar Legislative Council election, including Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and former CM Rabri Devi, were declared elected unopposed to the state Legislative Council, as reported by news agency ANI. As per the notification of the Election Commission, the nomination for the MLC election started on March 4, and the last date for filing the nomination paper was March 11, while candidates were allowed to withdraw their names until March 14.


Last week, CM Nitish Kumar filed his nomination for the election. The tenure of 11 MLCs, including Nitish Kumar, will end in the first week of May this year.


Besides him, other MLCs whose terms will expire are Rabri Devi (RJD), Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (BJP), Sanjay Kumar Jha (JD-U), Prem Chandra Mishra (Congress), Santosh Kumar Suman (HAM-S), Mangal Pandey (BJP), Ram Chandra Purve (RJD), Khalid Anwar (JD-U), Rameshwar Mahto (JD-U), and Sanjay Paswan (BJP).


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When asked about seat sharing in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and state cabinet expansion, Nitish Kumar said that everything would be done soon. "Everything will be done soon. We will inform about everything," he said, as quoted by news agency ANI.


Meanwhile, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan on Wednesday said that the seat-sharing agreement with the BJP in Bihar for the Lok Sabha elections has been finalised and a formal announcement will be made soon. Speaking to reporters, Paswan said that the NDA will make efforts to win all 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar.


"I want to thank PM Modi for always protecting me in the alliance. He always treated Ram Vilas Paswan as his friend. Today, again we have strengthened our alliance NDA. Today, after the seat-sharing has been done for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, I want to thank BJP national president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. LJP will fight the elections with the intention that all the 40 seats in Bihar should be won by the NDA alliance and achieve the target of 400 seats in the country," he said, as quoted by ANI.