WITH the Election Commission expected to announce Bihar Assembly poll dates any time now, the BJP may have a hard time sifting through its sitting MLAs as it pushes for more seats within the NDA.

The BJP had finished just behind the RJD as the single-largest party in the 2020 elections, and its 80 MLAs, including 22 ministers, are going into the coming elections dragged down by the weight of anti-incumbency. Nitish Kumar , under whose leadership the NDA is contesting in Bihar, is seeking a fifth stint as CM.

While the party is hoping that the series of schemes and programmes announced by the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in recent days would balance that out, ideally, it would want to go in with new faces – which is easier said than done.

“The new schemes aimed at different sectio

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