Bihar: BJP minister says not easy to work in coalition, have to tolerate a lot

BJP leader and Bihar Minister Samrat Chaudhary has said that it is not easy to run the government in Bihar, where his party is in alliance with Nitish Kumar's JDU.

While addressing a gathering in Aurangabad on Sunday, Chaudhary also said that things become easier in states where BJP is in power on its own, "but in coalitions like Bihar, we have to tolerate a lot of things".

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He added that there are four ideologies working together in Bihar, referring to BJP, JDU, HAM and VIP that form the NDA in the state.

Chaudhary, who is the Panchayati Raj minister in Bihar, said that the BJP accepted Nitish Kumar as the chief minister even though the JDU won 43 seats and his party garnered 74. "And this is not the first time. In 2000 also, the JD(U) had won just 37 seats and the BJP won 68-69 seats. Despite this, the party accepted Nitish Kumar as the chief minister."