A day after the NDA’s landslide win in the Bihar Assembly elections, JD(U) national working president Sanjay Jha on Saturday told The Indian Express in an interview that “for Bihar, having Modi as the PM and Nitish Kumar as the CM is a dream combination” and “there is no confusion within the NDA” on the CM question. Union Minister Chirag Paswan, whose party LJP (RV) won 19 of the 28 seats it contested as part of the NDA, too, said that he “personally” feels Nitish should continue to head the government

Jha said the “double-engine” government was one of the reasons for the party’s victory. “For Bihar, having Modi as the PM and Nitish Kumar as the CM is a dream combination. People thought this was Bihar’s moment. Both the 2024 and 2025 Union Budgets had significant allocations for Bihar.

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