NDA's election plan for Bihar: BJP and JD(U) get 101 seats each

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The Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will contest an equal number of seats in the forthcoming Bihar Assembly polls — something which will be for the first time since they formed an alliance — evidence of the Hindutva party’s growing electoral footprint and influence in the state over the last decade and the gradual decline of the JD(U).

 

On Sunday evening, Dharmendra Pradhan, Union minister and in charge of the BJP’s poll affairs in Bihar, announced that the BJP and the JD(U) will contest 101 seats each in the elections, while the Lok Janshakti Party