With governments in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has burnished its credentials as a hegemon in the region, outwitted the coalition of opposition parties and bolstered its bid to win the Lok Sabha elections three times in a row, party leaders said.
In the Lok Sabha, the BJP has 170 of the 218 seats from the Hindi heartland states.
To strengthen its position in Bihar, where it has 17 of the 40 seats, it has opted for political expediency and compulsions of electoral arithmetic by overlooking the betrayal by JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, who walked out of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on two occasionsonce in 2013, when he opposed Narendra Modi's nomination as the prime ministerial candidate, and then again in 2022.
Bihar sends 40 lawmakers to Parliament. As of Sunday, the JD(U) has 16 and the Lok Janshakti Party has six lawmakers.
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