Will anyone even come out of NDA?
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Expansion
Today, the National Democratic Alliance will have more influence within the Grand Alliance than what the Indi alliance formed with opposition parties from across the country did in Mumbai against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Grand Alliance is not dividing its seats waiting for the NDA clan to break in Bihar. Today perhaps the fruits of that wait will be revealed. NDA is preparing to expand its clan and the Grand Alliance is hopeful that it will break. The decision will be taken today in Delhi. NDA is meeting in Delhi for distribution of 40 Lok Sabha seats of Bihar. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is going to Delhi for this meeting.
The anxiety of being torn apart amid claims
When Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was the architect of opposition unity, he was continuously talking about seat sharing from June 2023. Now 17 March 2024 has passed. On March 16, the Election Commission of India had announced the election dates, but CM Nitish Kumar, who suddenly came to his old home NDA while uniting the Indi Alliance, has not been able to finalize the seat distribution here yet. In this connection, he is going to Delhi on Monday afternoon. Although JDU is confident of 16 seats as per 2019 Lok Sabha elections and BJP is also preparing for 17 seats, but in view of the uncomfortable situation due to seat distribution among the remaining constituent parties, a final meeting has been called. The complete formula has to be decided in the meeting, but it is being told that by declaring seats for the first two-three phases, the matter can be kept pending. The Grand Alliance is considering the possibility of disintegration of NDA constituents as a possibility for itself, hence such a decision can be taken.
Why was there an uproar that this meeting was called?
If Union Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras had not said in a press conference in Bihar that he had not talked to anyone and he would contest the elections from Hajipur seat only, then the announcement on seats in NDA could have been made even without Monday’s meeting. Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) in a way forced Paras to say such a thing by talking about getting green signal on five seats for itself. On the other hand, if Chirag gets 17 BJP, 16 JDU and five seats, there is a situation of confusion among the other constituent parties. For this reason, NDA has now called this meeting and decided to convert milk into milk and water into water.
