Overview

• At a workers’ rally in Kanti, Muzaffarpur, Tejashwi Yadav declared he would field candidates across all 243 constituencies, a move read as leverage in stalled negotiations.
• Congress is pressing for at least 70 seats and seeking more winnable constituencies, while RJD leaders object to Congress targeting 20–25 seats seen as RJD strongholds and note no clear CM endorsement.
• VIP chief Mukesh Sahani has demanded the deputy chief minister’s post and a far larger quota, with allies indicating he could ultimately settle for about 20–25 seats.
• The expected entry of Pashupati Kumar Paras’s RLJP and Hemant Soren’s JMM has complicated allocations alongside existing partners RJD, Congress, and the Left parties.
• India Today’s DIU analysis suggests RJD holds relative strength in roughly 133–136 seats and Congress in about 43–51, while a separate single-source report of a near-final formula remains unconfirmed.