Now that there will be no bar on the entry of Narendra Modi to Bihar after the end of the BJP-JD(U) alliance, the BJP will stand to win the next Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, according to Leader of the Opposition in Bihar Assembly Nandkishore Yadav.
Yadav told reporters that the BJP would win the Lok Sabha poll next year and Assembly poll in 2015 with a "huge majority".
The BJP in alliance with the JD(U) had won 10 seats in the last general election and 91 out of 243 seats in the 2010 Assembly poll.
In both the previous polls, Narandra Modi did not campaign on the insistence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, but now after the break-up there would be no more hindrance, Yadav pointed out.
As per the party programme, he would be coming to the state for the first time after the split on October 27 to address state BJP's "Hunkar rally", he said.
Party president Rajnath Singh would also come to Patna on Sunday to address a workers' meet, he said.
Yadav, who was the state NDA convenor and a senior minister in the Nitish Kumar government, said it was not only Narendra Modi, but many other BJP chief ministers and leaders did not come to Bihar.
"However, it all depends on the availability and need of a leader to participate in the poll campaign," Yadav, flanked by state BJP President Mangal Pandey, said trying not to beat the topic too much.
He said that in the 1991 Lok Sabha elections in united Bihar, the BJP alone had captured 41 seats out of 54 seats. "We have the capacity which we have shown in the past and will do it again," he asserted.
Yadav refused to identify who was their number one rival now, JD(U) or Lalu Prasad's RJD when asked by reporters.
Bihar BJP President Mangal Pandey claimed that Nitish Kumar would be helpless now that he terminated the strong BJP support and there was a chance of return of "jungle raj" in Bihar.
"Except for the CM, the rest 17 ministers left in his cabinet (after removal of BJP ministers) have their background either in the Congress or RJD," Pandey pointed out.
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