BJP to contest more seats in Bihar in 2019
Patna, April 17: Senior BJP Leader C.P. Thakur on Tuesday said that the party will contest more seats than its allies in Bihar in the 2019 parliamentary polls.
"The Bharatiya Janata Party will contest from majority of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar in the 2019 polls," Thakur, also a BJP Rajya Sabha MP, told reporters here.
Janata Dal-United leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who joined hands with the BJP last July, and formed the government after dumping the RJD and the Congress, contested the last Lok Sabha polls alone and won only two seats.
Nitish Kumar is eyeing to contest over a dozen Lok Sabha seats in 2019 with the BJP, Thakur said.
The Lok Janshakti Party of Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan which won six seats in the last election, is trying to contest from no less than 10 seats.
Another BJP ally RLSP of Union Minister Upender Kushwaha might contest from over half a dozen seats.
Thakur however, refused to reveal the exact number of seats the BJP will contest.
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UP: Three killed, one injured in road accident in Kannauj
Kannauj (UP), Mar 11 (PTI): Three people were killed and one person was injured in an accident involving a tractor trolley and two motorcycles on the national highway here, police said on Wednesday.
The incident took place on National Highway 24 near Atara village at around 11 pm on Tuesday.
According to Sadar Kotwali Station House Officer Jitendra Pratap Singh, a farmer from Mawai village was returning home on a tractor-trolley when it collided with a motorcycle near Atara village in Jalalpur Panwara area.
The impact of the collision was so severe that it threw the two riders onto the road, killing them on the spot. The deceased have been identified as Mohammad Ahad (20) and Arbaaz (16), both residents of Inayatpur village.
A man identified as Raju, a resident of Mawai village, was also injured in the accident and was admitted to the district hospital.
After the collision, the tractor driver lost control of the vehicle, which overturned onto another motorcycle, killing its rider Amit (36), a resident of Chhibramau, on the spot.
The bodies have been sent for post-mortem, police said.
