They all welcomed the key priorities of the budget, including productivity and resilience in agriculture, employment, and skilling and services, aimed at fostering economic growth and creating ample opportunities.
These features included: hilly and difficult terrain; low population density and/or sizeable share of population; strategic location along borders with neighbouring countries; economic and infrastructural backwardness; and non viable nature of state finances.
Union Minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha supremo Jitan Ram Manjhi has said that NDA ally and Janata Dal-United Chief Nitish Kumar made him the Chief Minister of Bihar in 2014 which was a "huge honour" for him.
The Janata Dal (United) contended that if the BJP had given it some of the Uttar Pradesh seats in the…
Senior JD(U) leader KC Tyagi said that despite repeated clarifications over the sanctity of EVMs by concerned departments, the Opposition has deliberately been raising the issue after Mr Elon Musk’s ''wild allegations''.
Talking to a news agency, the JD-U leader said, "JDU (Janata Dal-United) and TDP (Telugu Desam Party) are strongly in the NDA. We will support the person nominated (for Speaker) by the BJP."
Tyagi said that while their support to the BJP is unconditional, the long-standing demand of special status to Bihar is in their heart.
While there is no doubt that the National Democratic Alliance, cumulatively poised for an absolute majority, will form the government, its shape and direction will depend on how adroitly the dominant party within the grouping manages the demands of its partners.
Both the TDP and the Janata Dal (U) are the partners of the BJP in the NDA alliance and but both of them are considered mercurial leaders with a mass following as has been demonstrated by them in the elections.
However, the NDA is likely to suffer some losses and its tally appears to go down this time.
