Caste out of Bihar equation as NDA wins state; Tejashwi's rise stalled

The once kingmaker of national politics, Lalu Prasad and his Muslim-Yadav line has completely gone off track

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Major leaders of the NDA in the state, including all the Union ministers and prominent faces, are well ahead in their respective constituencies

Satyavrat Mishra Patna

3 min read Last Updated : May 23 2019 | 11:28 PM IST

Decimating the Congress-Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD’s) Grand Alliance, which was banking on the caste factor to defeat the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the Modi tsunami is set to make a clean sweep in Bihar.

The NDA is set to bag a whopping 39 out of the 40 seats in the Lok Sabha polls in the state. This is so far the best performance by any political formation in Bihar in decades.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had been leading in all the 17 seats it contested in the state, while Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (U) or JD(U) had been ahead

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