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Does NDA expansion indicate vulnerability?

The BJP has realised that in some states, like Bihar and Maharashtra, more than the Modi factor, it needs social alliances for 2024

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Bharat Bhushan New Delhi
The BJP's response to the formation of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, or INDIA, is an acknowledgement that the Opposition alliance poses a cogent threat. It was compelled to showcase a 38-party grouping as an expanded National Democratic Alliance (NDA). The BJP may think it has trumped the 26 parties in the Opposition's INDIA alliance, with a larger number of parties in its alliance. However, one might be left wondering about the significance of such allies.

Of the 37 other parties, including the factions of Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the two factions of the Lok Janshakti
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