Bihar Chunav: Nitish Paradox And BJP’s Failure To Secure A Majority On Its Own

The BJP and the JDU are once again in alliance for the Bihar assembly polls 2025. The BJP, which claims to be among the world’s largest political parties, has failed to make its own majority road in this Hindi belt state. Twenty years is a long time in politics. Long enough for allies to become adversaries, adversaries to become partners again, and for political fortunes to rise and fall. Yet, in Bihar, one thing has remained curiously constant: the Bharatiya Janata Party’s dependence on Nitish Kumar.

Despite being India’s most powerful political machine — ruling at the Centre for over a decade, expanding across states from Assam to Madhya Pradesh, and scripting historic victories in Uttar Pradesh — the BJP continues to lean on one man in Bihar to stay in power. That man is Nitish Kumar,