The Congress is likely to contest 58 of the 243 seats in the Bihar assembly elections and has already finalised candidates for 25, The Indian Express has learnt. This would be 12 fewer seats than the party contested in the 2020 assembly elections.

Those in the fray include 15 of the Congress’s 17 sitting MLAs. The candidature of two sitting MLAs is “on hold” as the party could either field new candidates or swap seats with its ally, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), it is learnt.

Congress had won just 19 of the 70 seats it contested in the 2020 Assembly elections. Two of its MLAs – Murari Prasad Gautam (from Chenari) and Siddharth Saurav (from Vikram) – had eventually rebelled against the party and might contest the upcoming polls on a BJP ticket, it is learnt.

According to highly pla

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