PATNA, Oct. 20 -- Even though utter confusion reigns in the Opposition's Grand Alliance over sharing of seats and fielding candidates, the National Democratic Alliance (too) has its share of chaos. The Janata Dal (United) on Sunday reinstated Saba Zafar as its candidate in Amour constituency after replacing him with former Rajya Sabha MP Sabir Ali who had returned to JD(U) only on Saturday. Amour is a crucial seat in Seemanchal where AIMIM's Bihar unit chief Akhtarul Iman is a formidable candidate. Zafar was a runner up in 2020 against Iman. Sabir was declared a replacement overnight even after Zafar filed his papers, and now he himself has been replaced overnight. Zafar had won the 2010 Assembly election from Amour on the BJP ticket. It was relegated to the second position later in two consecutive elections. In 2005 (October and February elections) also, he was runner up on the SP ticket and as an independent. He had joined JD(U) ahead of 2020 polls. A former member of the Rajya Sabha - first as LJP leader and later as JD(U) member to complete his full six-year term -- Sabir Ali had joined the JD(U) only on Saturday. He was earlier in the JD(U), but was expelled in 2014 for praising Narendra Modi. It was the time when JD(U) had contested independently over Nitish Kumar's reservation with the name of Narendra Modi as the NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate. "There was some confusion and that has been removed," said the two leaders while talking to the media at the residence of minister Leshi Singh. However, the drama over Zafar's candidature was surprising and JD(U) leaders are tight-lipped about it. A senior party leader said that the matter had been resolved and now both Zafar and Ali would work for the NDA. Zafar faces Akhtarul Iman of the AIMIM again. "There was some confusion that Zafar could switch and now things stand sorted out. There is a patch up between both Zafar and Ali," he added. However, the development has given indication that internal strife is affecting not just the INDIA bloc, but also the NDA, though to varying degrees. The NDA also saw the nomination of one of its candidates, Seema Singh of LJP(RV) from Marhoura, getting rejected and there are efforts to calm down the frayed tempers of some of the potential ticket hopefuls in the BJP, JD(U) and the LJP-RV, who missed the bus. Her nomination was rejected due to discrepancies in her documents ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, and a JD(U) spokesman wasted no time in taking a dig on the LJP(RV) with his post on X: "Bihar First, Bihari First, nomination rejected first and party's result first". As the post started doing the rounds, he was quick to delete it. In the BJP too, leaders disgruntled with ticket denials are in large numbers and the party has started the firefighting exercise to mollify them, but it remains to be seen how far it succeeds in controlling the dissension on seats of Patna, Bikram, Pirpainty, Alinagar, Bhagalpur, Maharajganj and a few other seats. "Both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United)- key constituents of the NDA - are facing significant internal strife, but it has remained under wraps, as the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress, the main parties in the opposition bloc, are grappling with more disgruntled members. But the reality is that discontentment is all around, as personalities have taken precedence over people in electoral politics," said former director of AN Sinha Institute of Social Studies, DM Diwakar. Another social analyst Prof NK Choudhary said that in the NDA the discontent was muted due to the ability of the BJP top brass to deal with it. "But it is there and a lot will unfold as election dates draw closer. In all parties, workers do hard work in the quest for tickets. If tickets go to outsiders overnight, it is bound to create discontent, and it is evident in all the parties. This election may witness its impact," he added....