Will Modi's game plan to hold LS polls along with 14 state assemblies work?

Would JD (U) be willing that assembly elections in Bihar are also held along with Lok Sabha elections?

Several recent developments have led opposition parties, including the Congress, to conclude that the Narendra Modi government is mulling a protracted two to three months long electoral exercise from January onwards.

The prolonged electoral exercise could include simultaneous, but multiple phased polling for 543-seats of the Lok Sabha and to as many as 14 state assemblies.

On Sunday, the national executive of the Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United), an ally of the BJP, passed a resolution in support of the proposal to hold simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly elections, and asked the Modi government to build consensus on the issue.

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