No anti-incumbency, Nitish-led NDA likely to regain power

The Opposition camp knows.

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA

The ruling National Democratic Alliance government in Bihar, led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is likely to come back to power again, with the assessment by Opposition parties indicating no signs of anti-incumbency against the present political dispensation. The state will go to the polls in less than eight months.

Sources in the Opposition camp, who are on the ground as part of the pre-election exercise, including those from the RJD and the Congress, told The Sunday Guardian that, barring any mishap by the ruling alliance that might force voters to change their preference at the last moment, there was no anti-NDA wave in the state.

Top-placed sources in the Opposition, while responding to this newspaper's queries, said that Kumar, who has been the CM of the state continuously since November 2005, is not expected to jump ship before the election, despite speculation in certain sections of the media based on his past record.