The second phase of Bihar Assembly elections (2025) is to be held on Tuesday (November 11, 2025). The campaign ended last Sunday. Meanwhile, what is being discussed the most and many times the opposition has also raised the question is why Nitish Kumar and PM Modi were not seen together? The opposition even claims that BJP will not make Nitish Kumar the Chief Minister after the elections. Amidst all this, Union Minister and in-charge of Bihar elections Dharmendra Pradhan has explained everything clearly.
Dharmendra Pradhan was talking to ANI. Regarding PM Modi and Nitish Kumar, he was asked why these two faces were not seen together in a rally, a meeting, a road show? On this, Dharmendra Pradhan said that when elections were not announced, the Prime Minister had come to Bihar for about seven-eight big government programs. On October 24, our NDA’s formal campaign started from Samastipur. In this, all the leaders of NDA, Narendra Modi, Nitish Kumar, Chirag Paswan, Upendra Kushwaha and all the big leaders of JDU and BJP from Bihar BJP were present.
Change in plan due to Chhath and rain?
Dharmendra Pradhan said, “We had decided that everyone would campaign separately. Due to Chhath and two days of rain, the timing of the campaign got a bit hesitant. Keeping this in mind, the Prime Minister, the Chief Minister, the Defense Minister, the Home Minister, the National President and all the NDA leaders of Bihar had different plans. The NDA meeting was also held till 11-12 pm yesterday (Sunday) night.”
#WATCH Patna “It is a part of our plan. We have decided that all of us will carry out the election campaign individually,” says Union Minister and BJP Bihar election incharge Dharmendra Pradhan, on being asked why PM Modi and CM Nitish Kumar are not seen together during the… pic.twitter.com/zqZccU8O5m
— ANI (@ANI) November 10, 2025
On one question, there were many voters who could not understand that the lotus is the arrow, the arrow is the lotus, because they were looking for the arrow, the Jeevika Didis were telling them that they could not see the arrow, so they did not know that if they want to vote for NDA then they have to press the lotus button there. If Nitish Kumar and PM Modi were together then perhaps this would have become easier. On this he said that in 2005, 2010, 2020, 2009, 2019 and 2024, three each Assembly and Lok Sabha elections have been fought together. NDA has fought unitedly. The strength of NDA is squarely in front of the society.
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