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Bihar Elections: Congress to field more
Minority candidates
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 07:39:03 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Congress will field more candidates from minority communities
in the upcoming Bihar polls than in the past, the party said
Tuesday.
"We will try to give the minorities maximum representation. It
will be more than what was given in the past," Sagar Rayka, All
India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary, told IANS.
But Rayka, who is AICC secretary in charge of Bihar, did not say
if minorities in the state will be given tickets according to the
size of their population.
According to the 2001 census, minorities comprise over 16 percent
of Bihar's population.
Elections to the 243-member Bihar assembly will be held in six
phases beginning Oct 21.
Congress leaders said the screening committee has finalised
recommendations for the first three phases of polls and the
central election committee, headed by party president Sonia
Gandhi, will meet soon to take a final decision on the candidates.
Party leaders from Bihar said they were apprehensive about the
effect the Sep 24 verdict in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid row
in Ayodhya would have on the party's prospects in the Bihar polls.
"I am apprehensive as there might be attempts by political parties
to reap electoral benefits," a senior Bihar Congress leader said
on condition of anonymity.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court is expected to give
its verdict on title suits concerning the Ayodhya dispute Sep 24.
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