Bihar BJP president and Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary announced that the NDA will fight the next Bihar elections under the leadership of Nitish Kumar. Chirag Paswan has also praised Nitish Kumar’s leadership. In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) contested 16 seats and won 12. It is in alliance with the BJP, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) in the state.
Kumar’s support has become important for the formation of the NDA government at the Centre as the BJP has failed to secure a majority in the Lok Sabha on its own. In the backdrop of the current political situation in the country, Samrat Choudhary’s statement that the NDA will fight the 2025 assembly elections in the state under the leadership of Kumar holds significance. Experts believe that the BJP-JDU-Chirag Mahagathbandhan is invincible in Bihar. If they fight together, they will cross the majority mark. Nitish Kumar is necessary for victory in Bihar.
Against the backdrop of the current political situation in the country, Samrat Choudhary’s statement that the NDA will fight the 2025 assembly elections in the state under the leadership of Kumar holds significance. “The NDA will fight the next assembly elections in Bihar under the leadership of the CM…we have started preparations for it,” Deputy Chief Minister Choudhary told reporters. Kumar first took oath as Bihar chief minister in 2000. However, his government fell within a week. Except for a brief period in 2014, he has been the chief minister of the state since 2005.
Of the 40 Lok Sabha seats, the JD(U) and the BJP won 12 seats each, while the LJP (Ram Vilas) won five and HAM won one. In the India Block, the RJD won four seats, the Congress three and the CPI(ML) Liberation two. The NDA’s tally in Bihar fell by nine seats compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Commenting on the BJP’s dismal performance in the Lok Sabha elections, Choudhary said, “The people of Bihar gave us 75 per cent marks (12 seats) in this Lok Sabha election. We will deliberate on what went wrong in the constituencies where we lost.”
