Update: JMM Seeks 12 Seats, Leaders To Meet Tejashwi Yadav Over Bihar Seat Sharing

The uncertainty around the chief ministerial candidate from the Mahagathbandhan for poll-bound Bihar only grew as Congress leader Udit Raj dismissed RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav as a possible candidate for the INDIA bloc.

Raj said while Tejashwi may be the CM face for his own party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the INDIA bloc will make a “collective" decision on its candidate.

“Tejashwi Yadav may be CM face for RJD but INDIA bloc’s CM face will be decided collectively," Raj told news agency PTI. “Look, any supporter of any party can do that (name that party’s leader a chief minister)…but the INDIA bloc’s candidate has not been decided. Let us see what the Congress HQ decides."