Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah said that I.N.D.I.A bloc pushed Bihar CM and Janata Dal United (JDU) leader Nitish Kumar back into the arms of NDA. Abdullah praised the BJP and said, "They (BJP) have an unparalleled election machine...We sometimes fight elections as if we don't care." Notably, NDA won 202 of 243 assembly seats in the Bihar elections.