New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- The National Democratic Alliance's campaign in Bihar is especially focusing on over two dozen seats that were swapped between various constituents of the National Democratic Alliance to ensure that the transfer of votes-sometimes a tricky issue-happens smoothly, people aware of the matter said.

The presence of JDU leader and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with leaders of all the alliance partners including union ministers Chirag Paswan of the LJP, and Jitan Ram Manjhi of the HAM and BJP president JP Nadda at release of the NDA's election manifesto on Friday was a show of strength and a message to reinforce the cohesiveness of the alliance, they added, asking not to be named.

But at the constituency level, it is i...