Among the leading figures in the INDIA bloc at the time, JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar had dealt the Opposition alliance a blow ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls when he made yet another return to the BJP-led NDA, making it the fourth time in the past decade that he has switched sides.

The BJP has always been there to welcome him back as its alliance has fared well with the JD(U) since the 2005 Assembly elections, when Nitish first became the Chief Minister. In the 2005 and 2010 Assembly polls, the JD(U)-BJP alliance had managed to comfortably cross the 122-seat majority mark in the 243-seat Assembly.

But in the 2014 Narendra Modi wave Lok Sabha elections, among the few times that the JD(U) contested independently, it managed to win just two seats even as the NDA won 31 seats of the sta

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