While it is not confirmed who will become the next Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar remains the face of the NDA alliance in the state and most likely candidate to assume the top post. However, a key issue that is being discussed in the political circles is the number of deputy chief ministers that the new government is likely to have once NDA comes to power.

According to an analysis by Dhainik Bhaskar, the BJP is already close to forming the government on its own. BJP was leading in 92 seats while JDU was ahead in 85 and LJP (Ramvilas) in 19, as per ECI trends. Even without JDU, the NDA was leading in 117 seats, five short of the majority mark of 122 Experts believe that BJP can comfortably mobilise this number if they need to, giving them enough leverage in the new government if Nitish

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