Bihar Election Results 2020: NDA Set to Form Govt Again After Close Contest Against Mahagathbandhan, Nitish Kumar to Return as CM

Brothers Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap won the Raghopur and Hasanpur seats with impressive margins of 38,174 and 21,139 votes respectively.

Written by: India.com News Desk Edited by: Surabhi Shaurya

Updated: November 11, 2020, 9:55 AM IST

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New Delhi: With a slender majority, the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was back in power in Bihar, winning 125 seats in the 243-member Assembly. On the other hand, the opposition Mahagathbandhan, which began the day with a lead had to take a backseat by the end of counting settling for 110 seats in the election that saw counting continue stretching over 20 hours. The Congress bagged only 19 of 70 seats it contested and impacted the Mahagathbandhan tally.

However, RJD leaders and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s sons Tejashwi and Tej Pratap won the Raghopur and Hasanpur seats with impressive margins of 38,174 and 21,139 votes respectively.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced results of Bihar Assembly elections in the early hours on Wednesday with the BJP emerging as the single-largest party, winning 75 seats of the total 110 seats it contested and JD(U) bagged 43 seats out of the 115 seats it fought. The majority mark is 122.

Among the NDA allies, four seats went into the accounts of the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) and 4 to former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular).

The biggest gainer was the CPI-ML, which clinched 12 seats, followed by the CPI and CPI-M (two each). Barring the CPI-ML, which had three seats in the outgoing assembly, none of the Left parties had a presence in the House.

Besides, the AIMIM of Asaduddin Owaisi claimed five seats of the 14 seats it was in the fray. AIMIM along with its allies the BSP and RLSP together contested 20 seats. The BSP managed to win one seat in Bihar.

Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), which had pulled out of the NDA and contested nearly 150 seats also managed to win just one.

PM Modi Thanks People of Bihar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter and thanked the people of Bihar whom he said clearly stated development as their priority.

“The poor in villages, farmers, labourers, merchants, shopkeepers and every section of Bihar have relied on the NDA’s mantra of sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas. I again assure every citizen of Bihar that for the balanced development of every person, every region, we will continue to work with full dedication,” he tweeted in Hindi.

बिहार में जनता-जनार्दन के आशीर्वाद से लोकतंत्र ने एक बार फिर विजय प्राप्त की है।@BJP4Bihar के साथ एनडीए के सभी कार्यकर्ताओं ने जिस संकल्प-समर्पण भाव के साथ कार्य किया, वह अभिभूत करने वाला है। मैं कार्यकर्ताओं को बधाई देता हूं और बिहार की जनता के प्रति हृदय से आभार प्रकट करता हूं।

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 10, 2020

“Every voter in Bihar has clearly stated that he or she is an aspirant and priority is only and only development. The blessings of the NDA’s good governance again after 15 years in Bihar shows what Bihar’s dreams are, what Bihar’s expectations are,” PM Modi said.

Slowed Counting: 

Counting of votes, which began at 8 am on November 10, Tuesday at 55 counting centres across 38 districts of the state finally ended at around 4:05 am on Wednesday.

The counting process was slow as there were 1,06,515 polling stations this time compared to 72,723 in 2015 polls as part of preventive measures against COVID-19.

‘Tampering’ in the counting?

A delegation of RJD and Congress went to the Election Commission office in Patna and alleged “tampering” in the counting of votes in some constituencies.

After leaving the ECI office, RJD leader Manoj Jha who was part of the delegation said that tampering had been done on over a dozen seats in an effort to change “people’s mandate” and added that EC has assured the delegation it will “try to address their grievances”.

“There are over dozens of seats where tampering has been done. They are trying to change the people’s mandate. Even after all such ill-intended attempts, we will form the government. EC has assured us that they will try to address all our grievances. We trust the EC but not the district administration,” Jha told reporters.

EC Rejects RJD’s Claims

ECI said that the Election Commission has never worked under anybody’s pressure. “All officials and machinery are working sincerely for declaration of Bihar election results,” he said.