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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hopeful of winning the Bihar assembly election later this year and termed as "impractical" the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Janata Dal-United coalition.
"Our party hopes to win the polls that are to happen in Bihar soon. An impractical coalition is set to try and stop us. I am sure we, along with our allies, will come to power in Bihar," Jaitley said in a press conference here.
Stating that the BJP had become the central core of Indian politics, Jaitely said: "we are on the centre stage".
"Our party and our cadre are proud of our performance," the senior BJP leader said on the occasion of one-year of Modi government, adding: "The last one year has been historic for BJP."
Stating that now there was "clarity of direction" and "policy paralysis has been fought down", Jaitely said: "Corruption has been replaced by transparent governance" and "crony capitalism has been replaced by liberal policy."
He also said the last one year has "restored the credibility, stature of PMO".
