General elections may be advanced to November if monsoon is on time

This means that a final decision on this would have to be taken internally in the government latest by July

Run up to elections

Several recent meetings between Janata Dal United (JDU) supremo Nitish Kumar and Ram Vilas Paswan of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) have triggered speculation about the possible formation of a front ahead of the 2019 general elections. Concerns about losing their core voters and the rising popularity of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is putting pressure on both the leaders. Although both are part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, both want to leverage their position within the NDA — and who knows, might even consider jumping ship to the