NDA to win 220 seats in Bihar Assembly elections, says Union Minister Nityanand Rai


File photo of Union Minister Nityanand Rai.

File photo of Union Minister Nityanand Rai.

A committee meeting on Friday was attended by BJP National Chairman JP Nadda, former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Bihar Election Officer Devendra Fadnavis, and Bihar BJP Chief Sanjay Jaiswal, among others.

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Bihar’s Union Minister and BJP Leader Nityanand Rai said on Friday that the NDA will form the government in the state and win 220 of the 243 seats in the assembly elections, which will be held in October and November. “I am confident that the NDA will win 220 seats and form the government under the leadership of (Chief Minister) Nitish Kumar,” Rai, coordinator of the newly constituted 70-member Bihar election steering committee, told reporters.

A committee meeting on Friday was attended by BJP National Chairman JP Nadda, former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Bihar Election Officer Devendra Fadnavis, and Bihar BJP Chief Sanjay Jaiswal, among others.


The meeting discussed various issues related to the state and the assembly elections, Rai said.

“People from all walks of life, especially farmers, the poor and women have immense faith and trust in Prime Minister Narendra Modi … We will fight at the polls on the basis of this trust that people have placed in the PM and the development work carried out by the state government ”, he said.

Rai, the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, also said that the Bihar government health department, headed by Mangal Pandey, has made all the arrangements to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

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