Bihar is the only state in Hindi heartland where there is no BJP chief minister. With leading at 91 seats at the time of writing this news, can the saffron party venture out to throw Nitish Kumar aside and form its own government with its own leader as the chief minister? Prime Minister Narendra Modi indicated to install his own man as the chief minister of the state last week. Campaigning for Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary at Tarapur, he declared that he would make him a "bada aadami" if wins the elections. He dropped the hint to elevate the deputy chief minister if the BJP gets enough number of seats.

Will PM Modi do as he indicated? The ruling coalition of NDA is leading at 202 seats with the BJP surging ahead at 92 seats and JD(U) at 82. With this the electoral arithmetic in

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