Reasons And Excuses For BJP's Loss

[G.Subramaniam]

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<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The JD(U) leaders had also declined to sign a BJP-proposed "NDA agenda for governance" and the NDA did not hold a single meeting on common strategy in the run-up to the general elections.

Besides, JD(U), the only NDA constituent that is happy with the poll outcome is the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) led by Ajit Singh, which has won five of the seven seats it had contested from western Uttar Pradesh in an pre-poll arrangement with the BJP.
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The only one who is secular remaining in NDA is JD-U
JD-U has no choice but to lump it, in bihar the new caste equation is upper caste + muslim = 35%

I am sure that with the return of the orphaned OBC castes to hindu causes
there are plenty of local hindu issues