Hours after the BJP announced its seat sharing formula in Bihar for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and former ally Upendra Kushwaha on Sunday said the saffron’s party decision to cut down on the number of seats it contested in the last general elections underscored the party’s lack of confidence.
Addressing a press conference, Yadav said despite BJP winning 22 of the 30 Lok Sabha seats it contested in 2014, the party agreed to give an equal number of seats to Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), who had returned with a tally of only two seats. “Now you can understand the dire straits the NDA is in,” he said.