JD(U) and RJD got 100 seats each, Congress was given 40 and only three were left for NCP to contest in the polls.
After a miffed NCP grumbled about getting just three seats to contest in the 'grand secular alliance' for the Bihar polls, both JDU and RJD have assured that Sharad Pawar's party will continue as their ally in the Bihar elections, according to a report in NDTV.
JD(U) and RJD got 100 seats each, Congress was given 40 and only three were left for NCP to contest in the polls.
NCP's Lok Sabha MP from Katihar constituency Tariq Anwar had said yesterday, "We have been ignored. We were not even consulted before the seat distribution was finalised. This is an insult to us and we will not tolerate it." But leaders from the JDU and RJD have said that the seat-sharing issue will be sorted out with NCP.
JD-U spokesperson Ajay Alok said that they would speak to NCP leaders so that they get an opportunity to convey their grievances. RJD's spokesperson Shakti Yadav too said that the NCP will continue to stay in the alliance. He said that both Nitish Kumar and Lal Prasad Yadav will speak to NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Tariq Anwar.
Anwar said he has informed NCP president Sharad Pawar about the treatment meted out to the party, and that it should get at least 12 seats to contest. "There could be no rapprochement over the issue if we get less than 12 seats. Seat distribution should be honourable. There should be some basis, some criteria for it instead of taking unilateral decisions," he said.
The NCP general secretary Tariq Anwar had said earlier that the demand for 12 seats is on the basis of Lok Sabha poll performance in which it secured 5.6 lakh votes and won the lone parliamentary seat allotted to it in the alliance. Anwar also pointed out that his party was runner-up in four constituencies, took third position in 13 and was fourth in over 20 places in the 2010 Assembly elections, which it had contested independently.
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