Patna: The NDA allies will fight the Bihar Assembly elections under the leadership of JD-U chief Nitish Kumar and a decision on who will head the next government will be taken by the elected legislators after the polls, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday.

Terming Kumar a very prominent socialist leader in Indian politics, Shah said the JD-U chief's politics has always been anti-Congress, and that he was a prominent leader of the JP movement and fought against the Congress during Emergency.

\"We are fighting the elections under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is also leading our election campaign,\" Shah told Aaj Tak in an interview.

The 243-member Bihar Assembly will go to polls in two phases, on November 6 and November 11, and the counting will take place

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