CPI announced the name of candidate to Contest Begusarai seat in the LS poll 2024.

Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary D Raja announced the candidate of the party to contest Lok Sabha election from Bihar’s Begusarai district on Friday.

He said that Awadesh Kumar Rai is the candidate of the party to contest the Begusarai seat of Bihar.

“We have given the ticket to Awadesh Kumar Rai to contest the Begusarai seat of Bihar. He will be the candidate of INDIA bloc for this seat,” D Raja said.

The polling for the Begusarai seat will be held in the fourth phase on May 13.

“We have demanded two seats for the party and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has given us one seat of Begusarai. We are expecting one more seat in Bihar and negotiation is currently underway with RJD,” D Raja said.

D Raja had earlier met with Lalu Prasad Yadav in the official residence of former CM Rabri Devi in Patna on Thursday.

Sources have said that Congress party also was eyeing on the Begusarai seat for former JNU president Kanhaiya Kumar. He is a native of Bihar’s Begusarai district and he contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election from this seat on the ticket of CPI but BJP candidate Giriraj Singh defeated him with the big margins. Now, Kanhaiya Kumar joined the Congress party and hence Lalu Prasad Yadav smartly gave the seat to CPI.

RJD had given the tickets to some of the candidates of the party to contest Lok Sabha election 2024 despite the seat sharing formula in INDIA bloc is not finalized yet.

EOM.