<p class="title">Kanhaiya Kumar, former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union is likely to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bihar's Begusarai district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The fiery student leader, who shot to fame after he was jailed on a sedition charge, could be the CPI candidate from Begusarai constituency, considered a Left bastion.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An indication regarding this development was given by CPI national council secretary K R Naraina, who was in Patna to attend a two-day state executive committee meeting of the party.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said that if Kanhaiya wants to contest from Kerala, the party would support him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"In Bihar, the choice of seat will be left to him. But Begusarai would be the most preferred one for Kanhaiya," said CPI state secretary Satyanarayan Singh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kanhaiya, who has always opposed the Hindutva politics of the RSS and the ABVP, is a native of Begusarai, where his parents still stay.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His mother Meena Devi is an anganwadi sevika (worker) there and his father Jayashankar Singh is a farmer who is paralysed and bed-ridden.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kanhaiya is also the author of the book <span class="italic"><em>From Bihar to Tihar.</em></span></p>.<p class="bodytext">Satyanarayan said the Left party would forge a broad alliance with the Congress, RJD, CPM, CPI-ML, NCP and the Sharad Yadav-led JD (U) faction to fight the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"In Bihar, the CPI has strongholds in Khagaria, Motihari, Begusarai and Madhubani. After the seats are earmarked for us, we will announce Kanhaiya's candidature," the state secretary said.</p>
<p class="title">Kanhaiya Kumar, former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union is likely to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bihar's Begusarai district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The fiery student leader, who shot to fame after he was jailed on a sedition charge, could be the CPI candidate from Begusarai constituency, considered a Left bastion.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An indication regarding this development was given by CPI national council secretary K R Naraina, who was in Patna to attend a two-day state executive committee meeting of the party.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said that if Kanhaiya wants to contest from Kerala, the party would support him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"In Bihar, the choice of seat will be left to him. But Begusarai would be the most preferred one for Kanhaiya," said CPI state secretary Satyanarayan Singh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kanhaiya, who has always opposed the Hindutva politics of the RSS and the ABVP, is a native of Begusarai, where his parents still stay.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His mother Meena Devi is an anganwadi sevika (worker) there and his father Jayashankar Singh is a farmer who is paralysed and bed-ridden.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kanhaiya is also the author of the book <span class="italic"><em>From Bihar to Tihar.</em></span></p>.<p class="bodytext">Satyanarayan said the Left party would forge a broad alliance with the Congress, RJD, CPM, CPI-ML, NCP and the Sharad Yadav-led JD (U) faction to fight the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"In Bihar, the CPI has strongholds in Khagaria, Motihari, Begusarai and Madhubani. After the seats are earmarked for us, we will announce Kanhaiya's candidature," the state secretary said.</p>
