A decision on Begusarai was taken at the CPI’s state executive meeting, attended by Raja and party’s national secretaries Nagendra Nath Ojha and Ram Krushna Panda. Earlier, the CPI had claimed that it was busy in preparations for contesting on three seats — Begusarai, Banka and Madhubani. In the Banka seat, RJD has already named senior party leader Jai Prakash Yadav as its candidate.Meanwhile, tension between RJD and Congress over Aurangabad seat seemed to have intensified after RJD chief Lalu Prasad announced that Abhay Kushwaha would be the party candidate from there.
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