Patna,(BiharTimes): In the coming Assembly election in Bihar the Janata Dal (United) and RJD are likely to contest around 100 seats each leaving behind 43 for the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party. As the JD(U) will field almost all its sitting legislators––during the last trust vote in March Nitish Kumar got the support of 97 party MLAs––it would be RJD candidates who will have to take on the sitting BJP MLAs in most of the seats. The BJP won 91 seats in the last Assembly election, but lost about half a dozen by-elections in 2014.

The RJD won 22 Assembly seats in 2010, but has now 25 MLAs as its candidates won a few by-polls in the recent months. So if the RJD contests 100 seats its candidates will have to take on 75 BJP (or allies) candidates). Most of the saffron party candidates would be sitting legislators.

A former RJD MLA, who later switched over to the Janata Dal (United), told BiharTimes that the candidates of Lalu Prasad’s party may have to face a stiffer challenge in the Assembly election as defeating sitting BJP legislators would not be an easy task.

However, some other political observers are of the view that much depends on as to whether the incumbency factor works against the sitting MLAs or not. Anyway RJD will have to certainly put up a much stronger candidates to take on the BJP sitting MLAs.

In contrast the Janata Dal (United) candidates would be facing new BJP (or allies) candidates.

Analysts are of the view that in case of strong wave in favour of any particular party even political greenhorns win the election comfortably. This happened in the last year Lok Sabha election not only in Bihar, but also outside.