The BJP on Monday said it was watching the developments in Bihar closely, and added that as of now they stood by what party president J.P. Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah told party leaders in Patna in late July — that the BJP would be fighting the 2024 general elections and 2025 Assembly election with the Janata Dal (U).
The relationship between the BJP and the JD(U) has had many twists and turns and its seems matters in Bihar are building up to some sort of denouement. In all of this, two to three things are extremely clear — that while BJP’s national leadership is ready to turn a blind eye or even quietly encourage covert ways of chipping away at its ally’s support base, as it happened with Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party playing vote cutter in the 2020 Assembly polls reducing JD(U) to 43 seats (now 45), the BJP is not ready for any parting of ways.
