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JDU-BJP equal partners in Bihar election 2025: How Nitish Kumar's party lost dominant role as strike rate fell

Posted on: Oct 12, 2025 19:20 IST | Posted by: Hindustantimes
JDU-BJP equal partners in Bihar election 2025: How Nitish Kumar's party lost dominant role as strike rate fell
THe JDU and BJP ar eventually touch partners in Bihar for the 2025 tell assemblage election, thanks largely to their strike rates going in opposite directions — the BJP's rising consistently, and the JDU's dropping sharply — over the past four elections. This time, they have decided to contest 101 seats each, of the 243 assembly segments in Bihar, with the remaining going to other partners. That's a climbdown for both, JDU from 115 and BJP from 110. Chirag Paswan's LJP(RV) with 29 seats is the factor that also impacted the math. But equal numbers for the JDU and BJP mean more than mere math. Nitish Kumar has been CM for two decades, but his strength has not translated for the JDU that he leads. In the 2020 Bihar assembly election, the BJP contested 110 seats, and won 74. That's a strike rate of 68%. This meant a revival from 2015, when Nitish had gone with his old friend Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD and the Congress to give Narendra Modi his first defeat after he came to power at the Centre in 2014. In 2015, the BJP won about 34% of the 157 seats it contested in a losing effort overall for a diminished NDA. The JDU, as part of the Mahagathbandhan in 2015, won 71 seats out of the 101 seats it contested while the alliance won 178 seats out the 243 seats in the assembly. He returned to the BJP fold later, and they contested the 2020 election together. But 2015 was an anomaly in the NDA journey.A more direct comparison would be between 2010, when the JDU was the much senior partner, and 2020, when its strike rate plummeted.

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