Bihar Election 2025: NDA Leaders Confirm Seat Sharing, Nitish Kumar Happy with Final Arrangements

On October 12, when the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) announced its seat sharing formula for the Bihar elections, both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal (United) were allotted 101 assembly constituencies (ACs) each, with 29 going to Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party-Ramvilas (LJP-R) and six each to Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM).

The JD(U) and BJP contesting an equal number of seats has been seen as a weakening of Nitish Kumar’s bargaining position within the NDA. (ANI)

The JD(U) and BJP contesting an equal number of ACs is a first in the four assembly elections the two parties have contested together in the state. More than anything it was seen as a weakening of Nitish Kumar’s bargaining position within the NDA, though he remains the chief ministerial candidate of the NDA in the state.