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Samastipur (Bihar): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is not losing popularity due to his shifting stance on political alliances and there is no anti-incumbency sentiment against him or the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the state, Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai told ThePrint...
A two-term Lok Sabha MP from Ujiarpur and MoS in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Rai has been renominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to contest from Ujiarpur which will go to the polls in the fourth phase scheduled for 13 May...
In the interview with ThePrint, Rai ruled out any change in chief minister and called Nitish the alliance leader in Bihar..
The MoS emphasised that all constituents of the NDA the BJP, Janata Dal (United), Lok Janshakti Party (Ramvilas) and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) are on the same page and fighting together as a well-oiled unit to win all 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar...
Discussing the trends so far, going by the first two phases of the Lok Sabha elections, Rai asserted that the NDA would sweep the state and the Grand Alliance comprising the Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Communist Party of India (CPI), CPI (ML) and CPI (M) would lose its deposits in all nine seats that went to the polls in the first two phases...
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