NDA focuses on fine tuning vote transfer after seat reshuffle

The National Democratic Alliance’s campaign in Bihar is especially focusing on over two dozen seats that were swapped between various constituents of the NDA to ensure that the transfer of votes—sometimes a tricky issue—happens smoothly, people aware of the matter said.

- Smriti Kak Ramachandran

The presence of JDU leader and CM Nitish Kumar along with leaders of all the alliance partners including union ministers Chirag Paswan of the LJP, Jitan Ram Manjhi of the HAM and BJP president JP Nadda at release of NDA’s election manifesto on Friday was a show of strength and a message to reinforce the cohesiveness of the alliance, they said on anonymity.

Butat the constituency level, it is important to focus on the details in an election that the BJP has emphasised, which is being contested jointly by the NDA allies under the leadership of Nitish Kumar.