Overview

• After talks at Tejashwi Yadav’s Patna residence, alliance partners said they had a broad consensus on allocations, with tentative ranges reported and a final announcement expected following coordination meetings around September 15.
• Pashupati Kumar Paras’s RLJP and Hemant Soren’s JMM will fight under the opposition umbrella, with JMM’s seats to come from the RJD quota and RLJP indicated in some reports at roughly 5–7 seats.
• Multiple outlets cited provisional ranges placing the RJD roughly in the 122–140 band, Congress about 52–62, Left parties around 31–35, and VIP near 15–22, with figures described as subject to adjustment.
• Congress, buoyed by the Voter Adhikar Yatra, is pressing for a more selective slate but publicly stressed there is no dispute, as allies acknowledged they may trim 2020 tallies to accommodate new partners.
• The RJD has proposed a yatra from Sasaram on September 15 focused on voter-roll issues that the alliance frames as “vote theft,” while the NDA trains MPs in a two-day workshop for the September 9 Vice-Presidential vote, where PM Modi sat in the last row and was felicitated for GST reforms; both blocs scheduled mock polling, and planned dinners were cancelled due to flood conditions.