Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the National Democratic alliance under the leadership of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will script a “record-breaking” victory in the upcoming Assembly elections in the state.

This was the first time that the prime minister endorsed the Janata Dal (United) chief as the alliance’s chief ministerial candidate.

“In the last assembly polls in Gujarat, where the party has been in power for 30 years, all previous records were broken,” Modi said at a rally in Samastipur. “Similar was the case in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Haryana. I am confident that in Bihar, too, under Nitish Kumar, the NDA will break all previous records.”

The NDA in Bihar comprises the JD(U), the BJP, Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party, Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha and Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Morcha.

The Opposition Mahagathbandhan alliance comprises the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Congress, Pashupati Kumar Paras’ Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party, the Vikassheel Insaan Party, the Indian Inclusive Party and three Left parties – Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist).

The Assembly polls are due to be held in two phases on November 6 and November 11, while the votes will be counted on November 14.

Earlier in the day, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav alleged that Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP did not want to make Kumar the chief minister again, ANI reported.

The RJD leader was referring to Shah’s October 17 statement when he said that while the NDA was contesting the elections under Kumar’s leadership, the decision about the next chief minister would be taken after the polls.

Yadav was named as the Mahagathbandan’s chief ministerial candidate on Thursday.

‘Top leaders of RJD, Congress out on bail’

Modi on Friday also said that Bihar will not repose its trust in the RJD or the Congress as most of their top leaders are out on bail in alleged corruption cases.

Alluding to the Yadav family in Bihar, the prime minister said: “The RJD family is the most corrupt one in Bihar. Most of its members are out on bail.”

Similarly, alluding to the Gandhi family in the Congress, Modi said that it is the “most corrupt family in the country”.

“Most of the members of this family too are on bail,” the prime minister said at another rally in Begusarai. “Bihar does not trust such people.”

Modi also took a swipe at the uncertainty surrounding the Mahagathbandhan’s seat-sharing agreement.

He alleged that the RJD, despite not winning any election the past two decades, ditched the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and the Congress.

In the 2020 Assembly polls, the NDA and the Mahagathbandhan ended up with an identical vote share at 37.2%.

However, the NDA returned to power in Bihar with a slender majority, winning 125 seats in the 243-member state Assembly. The Opposition bagged 110 seats.

The RJD, led by Lalu Prasad Yadav, emerged as the single-largest party with 75 seats but still lost the election.

In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which the Mahagathbandhan fought together, the RJD won four of the total 40 parliamentary constituencies, while the Congress clinched three and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) managed to bag two seats.

The NDA had won 30 seats.

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