00:00And we're bringing you a big Bihar NDA seat-sharing scoop on India Today.
00:06BJP and JDU may evenly split seats.
00:10India Today brings you the big scoop on the Bihar electoral battle.
00:15The BJP and JDU will be fighting on 205 seats
00:19and BJP-JDU will leave 38 seats for the smaller allies.
00:23Chirag's LJP has been offered 25 seats by the BJP
00:27while Manji's HAF may get 7 seats.
00:31RLSP, that is Kushwaha's party, may end up with 6 seats.
00:36Chirag Passmanu member has been pushing for select seats
00:39but at the moment, what we are telling you is about this seat-sharing scoop.
00:45And Rohit Singh is live with me on this story.
00:48Rohit, a big scoop on the seat-sharing numbers.
00:52He has 205 seats for the BJP and the JDU
00:59while the allies get a slice of 38.
01:03What more do we know?
01:04Anisha, see, there's a lot of hectic negotiations
01:11which is going on in Patna as well as in Delhi over the seat-sharing.
01:16And as far as NDA is concerned, we have seen in the last few days
01:19how Dharmendra Pradhan, who is the election in charge,
01:21has met Jitana Mahji Upendra Kushwaha.
01:24And as I speak right now, Dharmendra Pradhan is meeting Chirag Passman in Delhi
01:29discussing the seat-sharing issue.
01:31But what we are now learning is that BJP warns that the huge chunk of the 243 seats,
01:38that is almost 205 seats, should be fought by the largest alliance partners.
01:45That's the BJP and the Janta Dal United.
01:48Because BJP wants to send out a strong message
01:50that they don't want to ignore Nitesh Kumar
01:53and they are giving JDU also equal number of seats.
01:57So 205 is the number that we are learning
02:00that could be fought by both BJP and JDU together.
02:03And it could be like evenly balanced, 103 or 102, each side could fight.
02:08And after that, Chirag Passman is likely to be offered 25 seats,
02:137 seats to Jitana Mahji and 6 seats to Upendra Kushwaha.
02:17So that's the latest that we are getting from our sources
02:20in Patna and Delhi that this could possibly be the seat-sharing formula of the NDA.
02:27And that is why Dharmendra Pradhan is also right now meeting Chirag Passman,
02:31trying to convince him, take him on board.
02:34Because what we know that Chirag Passman is not happy with this formula.
02:37He wants at least 35 seats to fight.
02:41But this is what is right now on the table as far as NDA is concerned.
02:46Anisha.
02:46All right, Rohit Singh, thank you for that scoop.
02:50But let's look at what has been happening with this entire seat-sharing debate.
02:55All right.
03:01All right.
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