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The NDA is currently leading with 190 seats in the 243-member Bihar Assembly, and the BJP state president has asserted that the ruling coalition will return to power with a thumping majority.

Within the NDA’s fold, the BJP is leading on 85 seats, the JD(U) in 76, the LJP(RV) in 22, HAM(S) in five and RLM in two.

Even as the opposition dismissed the early figures as inconsequential, Jaiswal insisted the contours of the mandate were visible.

The NDA is currently leading with 190 seats in the 243-member Bihar Assembly, and the BJP state president has asserted that the ruling coalition will return to power with a thumping majority. Dilip Kumar Jaiswal said the trends reaffirmed what the ruling coalition had sensed "on the faces and in the words" of voters through bo

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