NDA sweeps Bihar elections 2025, Opposition sinks

The ruling National Democratic Alliance NDA on Friday secured a threefourth majority in the Bihar Assembly winning 183 seats in the 243member House as per the Election Commission website The BJP emerged as the largest party winning 83 seats and leading in six other constituenciesIts ally Chief Minister Nitish Kumarled JDU won 75 seats and was ahead in 10 while Union minister Chirag Paswanled Lok Janshakti Party Ram Vilas bagged 17 and was ahead in two other seatsHindustani Awam Morcha Secular headed by former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi won five seats while Upendra Kushwahaled Rashtriya Lok Morcha won three seats and was leading in oneDeputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha and state ministers Prem Kumar Maheshwar Hazari and Sanjay Saraogi and BJPrsquos Maithili Thakur were among prominent winners from the NDA campPrime Minister Narendra Modi waves a lsquogamcharsquo towel as part of the celebration of NDArsquos victory in the Bihar Assembly elections on Friday PicsPTIRJD leader and INDIA blocrsquos CM face Tejashwi Yadav the late Mohammad Shahabuddinrsquos son Osama Shahab and CPIML Liberationrsquos Sandeep Saurav were among prominent winners from the opposition campThe INDIA bloc managed to win only 32 seats by press time The RJD bagged 23 seats and was leading in two other constituencies while the Congress won six seats the CPIML Liberation two seats and the CPIM oneThe BJP and the JDU contested 101 seats each while their ally LJP RV put up candidates in 28 constituencies In the INDIA bloc the RJD fought in 141 seats while the Congress contested 61 constituencies and the CPIML Liberation 20Maithili Thakur Youngest MLAAnother notable winner was Raju Tiwari the state president of Lok Janshakti Party Ram Vilas Tiwari had wrested the Govindganj seat by defeating nearest Congress rival Shashi Bhushan Rai by an astounding margin of more than 32000 votes Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisiled AIMIM won five seatsDebacle for Jan SuraajFormer poll strategist Prashant Kishorrsquos Jan Suraaj Party dubbed the lsquoX factorrsquo failed to open its account The partyrsquos best performance came from Naveen Kumar Singh alias Abhay Singh who secured the second spot from the Marhaura constituency He was behind Jitendra Kumar Rai of the RJD by a margin of 27928 votesWomen factorDy CM Samrat Choudhary and LJP RV chief Chirag PaswanA high turnout of women who outnumbered male voters by nearly 10 percentage points seems to have clinched the deal in favour of the BJPled coalition as various studies have suggested that females especially in Bihar are more inclined towards the NDAMajor winners and losersBJPBihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary won Tarapur seat by a margin of 45843 seats defeating RJDrsquos Arun Kumar Choudhary polled 122480 votes Deputy CM Vijay Sinha won the Lakhisarai seat by a margin of 24940 votes defeating Congressrsquos Amaresh Kumar Sinha polled 122408 votesMaithili Thakur firsttime entrant won Alinagar seat by a margin of 11730 votes defeating RJDrsquos Binod Mishra Thakur polled 84915 votesNitish Mishra won Jhanjharpur seat by a margin of 54849 votes defeating CPIrsquos Ram Narayan Yadav Mishra polled 107958 votes Mangal Pandey firsttime entrant won Siwan seat by a margin of 9370 votes defeating RJDrsquos sitting MLA Awadh Bihari Choudhary Pandey polled 92379 votesShreyashi Singh won from Jamui seat by a margin of 54498 votes defeating RJDrsquos Mohammand Shamshad Alam She polled 123868 votes Nitin Nabin won Bankipur seat by a margin of 51936 votes defeating RJDrsquos Rekha KumarJDUVijay Kumar Choudhary won Sarairanjan seat by a margin of 20798 votes defeating RJDrsquos Arbind Kumar Sahni He polled 102792 votes Shrawon Kumar won Nalanda seat by a margin of 33008 votes defeating Congressrsquos Kaushalendra Kumar He polled 105432 votesSunil Kumar won from Bhorey seat defeating CPIML Liberation Dhananjay by 16163 votes He polled 101469 votes Sheela Kumari won Phulparas seat by 14099 votes defeating Congressrsquos Subodh Mandal She polled 93677 votes Aniruddha Prasad Yadav won Nirmali seat by a margin of 37310 votes defeating RJDrsquos Baidyanath Mehta He polled 118904 votesMaheshwar Hazari won Kalyanpur seat defeating CPI ML Lrsquos Ranjeet Kumar Ram by 38586 votes Hazari polled 118162 votes Jailed JDU leader Anant Singh secured a victory from Mokama Assembly constituency winning by a margin of 28206 votes The jailed MLA secured 91416 votes against the RJD candidate Veena Devi who got 63210 votesRJDRJD leader INDIA bloc candidate Tejashwi Yadav the late Mohammad Shahabuddinrsquos son Osama Shahab and CPIML Liberationrsquos Sandeep Saurav were among those winning from the opposition camp Yadav won from Raghopur seat by a margin of 14532 votes defeating BJPrsquos Satish Kumar Yadav polled 118597 votesAwadh Bihari Chaudhary lost Siwan seat by a margin of 9370 votes He polled 83009 votes Osama Shahab firsttime entrant won Raghunathpur seat by a margin of 9248 votes Alok Kumar Mehta won Ujiarpur seat by a margin of 16283 votesNitish thanks peopleBihar Chief Minister and JDU Presdient Nitish Kumar on Friday thanked people of the state for giving a ldquolandsliderdquo victory for the ruling NDA ldquoPeople of the state have expressed their confidence in our government by giving us a landslide mandate in the polls For this I bow to all the esteemed voters of the state and express my heartfelt gratitude and thanksrdquo he said ldquoFor this thanks and gratitude are also due to all the partners of the NDA alliancerdquoLike a tsunami NaddaBJP President JP Nadda on Friday said the people gave a massive mandate like a ldquotsunamirdquo to the NDA in the Bihar polls for good governance and development in the state putting a ldquono entryrdquo board for the lsquojungle rajrsquo that the state witnessed during the RJD rule in the past ldquoIt is a massive mandate and the poll results show itrsquos a tsunamirdquolsquoVictory of BiharisrsquoTerming the poll results a ldquovictory of every Biharirdquo Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the overwhelming mandate for the NDA is peoplersquos stamp of approval on its work for development womenrsquos safety and the welfare of the poor Shah said the people of Bihar have conveyed the mood of the entire nation that the purification of voter lists is essentialNDA destroyed jungle raj ModiPM Modi said the victory has given a new lsquoMY mdash Mahila and Youthrsquo formula with the people destroying the ldquocommunal MY formula of the jungle raj peoplerdquo Modi said Bihar is the land which gave India the pride of being the mother of democracy and the same land has ensured that the people attacking democracy ldquobite the dustrdquo ldquoBihar has shown again that lies are defeated and peoplersquos trust winsrdquo he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of 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