political impactnitishs many flipflops may have assured him a firm grip on power but did it also improve jdus political fortunes in the state figures show a mixed storywhile the jdu has improved its performance in the general election the party has fared poorly in successive state pollseven though nitish has remained the cm of bihar its his alliance partners rjd and bjp who have managed to win more seats than jdu in the last two electionsin fact in the previous three elections jdus seat share tally has fallen steadily from 115 in 2010 to just 43 in 2020 the party was relegated to the junior ally role after erstwhile nda partner bjp bagged more seats than nitishs jdu in 2020poll strategist prashant kishor who was once a close aide of nitish said that the bihar cm was never really comfortable with the bjp alliancefrom 2017 to 2022 he kumar was with the bjp but i never found him comfortable because of many reasons he may have thought that let us experiment with mahagathbandhan grand alliance kishor told television news channels in patnakishor who had joined the jdu and was later removed from the party said kumar no longer enjoyed the tefloncoated image he once hadif you look at the hard facts there is a huge difference in 2010 he had 117 mlas in 2015 he had 72 and now 43 many political commentators say his image is tefloncoated the numbers dont show that he told a tv channelthe story is slightly different in the lok sabha elections though interestingly the jdu fared well each time it contested in alliance with bjp and fell to a historic low in 2014 when it was fighting against the saffron partythis was the time when jdu had first severed ties with nda after the latters decision to project narendra modi as its prime ministerial candidatethough the party bounced back in 2019 after rekindling ties with nda in 2017 the figures show that jdus political fortunes in bihar at least in lok sabha elections were tied heavily to the bjp