What are the stumbling blocks for BJP ahead of Bihar Assembly Elections 2015? By Deepak Parvatiyar October 1, 2015 5.00/5 (100.00%) 4 votes The Bharatiya Janata Party had done exceedingly well in the state elections in October 2005 as well as in 2010. In October 2005, it had won 55 of the 102 seats that it had contested in alliance with the Janata Dal (United) – a net gain of 18 seats from the previous elections that were heldonly a few months earlier in February. The JD (U) had then won 88 of the 139 seats . In 2010, the BJP-led NDA had further consolidated its position. While the BJP won an impressive 91 of the of the 102 seats it had contested, the JD (U) won 115 of the 141 seats then. The JD (U) withdrew from the NDA in 2013 at its own peril as the BJP triumphed in the 2014 general elections in the state by emerging as the largest party winning 22 Lok Sabha seats (a gain of 10 seats) while its new alliance partners, the Lok Janshakti Party and the Rashtriya L
