Nitish Kumar government will fall after polls: Paswan

BJP leader C.P. Thakur last Thursday said his party should form a government in Bihar if the Nitish Kumar government falls after the Lok Sabha elections.

"The BJP should not mind taking outside support of like-minded legislators to form a government if the JD-U government collapses after the end of the Lok Sabha polls," he then said.

Besides them, BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan during campaigning in Bihar too predicted that the Nitish Kumar government would fall.

Speculation is rife that if the JD-U performs poorly in the Lok Sabha polls, the result is bound to have an impact on the state government.

According to JD-U leaders, some BJP leaders have been instructed by the party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to disturb the state government after the polls.

In 2009, the JD-U won 20 of 40 Lok Sabha seats from Bihar and the BJP, then its ally, won 12 seats. While the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) bagged four seats, the Congress and Independent candidates shared two seats each.