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NEW DELHI: Nitish Kumar may have faced a lot of flak for his decision to dump opposition bloc INDIA and return to. fold, but the move ahead of the. could prove to be beneficial for his party, which has seen its numbers reduce over the years...
The 2020 assembly elections in the state saw Nitish Kumar being relegated to the third position, way behind the BJP and also Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal...
In 2014, the JD(U) could win only 2 Lok Sabha seats with a vote share of 16.04% after it broke ties with the BJP and contested the elections on its own..
However, in 2019, when Nitish went back to the NDA fold and contested the elections with the BJP, he won 16 Lok Sabha seats and his party's vote share increased to 22.26%..
The story was similar in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, when the JD(U) contested with the BJP and won 20 seats with a vote share of 24.04%.. Clearly, this factor must have weighed heavily on Nitish Kumar's mind as he walked out of the INDIA bloc to join hands with the BJP again ahead of the Lok Sabha polls..
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