Bihar election: A day after poll debacle, Rahul calls on Kharge
By winning 183 seats, NDA secures a three-fourths majority; India Bloc bites the dust, with just 32 seats
The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Friday (November 14) secured a three-fourth majority in the Bihar Assembly, winning 183 seats in the 243-member House so far, as per latest results available on the Election Commission website. The BJP emerged as the largest party, winning 83 seats and leading in six other constituencies.
Its ally, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led JD(U), won 75 seats and was ahead in 10, while Union minister Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) bagged 17 and was ahead in two other seats. Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular), headed by former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, won five seats, while Upendra Kushwaha-led Rashtriya Lok Morcha won three seats and was leading in one.
Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, and state ministers Prem Kumar, Maheshwar Hazari and Sanjay Saraogi and BJP's Maithili Thakur were among prominent winners from the NDA camp.
India Bloc bites the dust
The INDIA Bloc managed to win only 32 seats so far. The RJD bagged 23 seats and was leading in two other constituencies, while the Congress won six seats, the CPI(ML) Liberation two seats and the CPI(M) one. RJD leader and INDIA bloc's CM face Tejashwi Yadav, the late Mohammad Shahabuddin's son Osama Shahab and CPI(ML) Liberation's Sandeep Saurav were among prominent winners from the opposition camp.
Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM won five seats.
Here is the latest break-up:
NDA: 202
BJP: 89
JDU: 85
LJP-R: 19
HAM: 5
RLM: 4
MGB/GRAND ALLIANCE: 35
RJD: 25
Congress 6
CPI-ML: 2
IIP: 1
CPI-M: 1
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- 15 Nov 2025 12:32 PM IST
Rahul meets party president Mallikarjun Kharge on poll debacle
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi met party president Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi to discuss Bihar assembly election results on Saturday, a day after the opposition party faced a drubbing in the state.
The two were joined by AICC general secretary, organisation, K C Venugopal, party treasurer Ajay Maken and AICC Bihar in-charge Krishna Allavaru. According to sources, the leaders met to discuss the Congress' poor performance in Bihar, where the party won only six of the 61 seats it contested.
This was the party's second-worst performance in Bihar after 2010, when it won only four seats.
On Friday, Gandhi said the Bihar election result was surprising. The election was not fair from the very beginning and that is why the party could not achieve anything much, he claimed.
Rahul also said the Congress and the INDIA bloc would conduct an in-depth review of the results.
- 15 Nov 2025 10:45 AM IST
NDA sweeps Bihar as 24 of 25 ministers win; Sumit Kumar Singh faces defeat
As the ruling NDA decimated the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar to retain power, all but one of the 25 state ministers in the fray won their respective seats.
Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, both from the BJP, won Tarapur and Lakhisarai assembly seats.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has been a member of the legislative council (MLC), did not contest the assembly elections.
Sumit Kumar Singh loses by 13000 votes
However, Sumit Kumar Singh, who had been elected in 2020 as an independent candidate and inducted into the state cabinet, failed to retain the Chakai assembly seat when he sought reelection on a JD(U) ticket.
Singh lost by a margin of nearly 13,000 votes to RJD candidate Savitri Devi, whom he had defeated five years ago from Chakai in Jamui district.
Son of late Narendra Singh, a former state minister and a close aide of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Sumit had held the Science, Technology and Technical Education portfolio in the outgoing government.
- 15 Nov 2025 10:36 AM IST
Stalin congratulates Nitish Kumar; says 'result doesn’t whitewash misdeeds of ECI'
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday (November 15) congratulated JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar for his decisive victory and wished him well in fulfilling the expectations of the people of Bihar. He also appreciated RJD's Tejashwi Yadav for his tireless campaign.
“The Bihar election result has a lesson for everyone. Election outcomes reflect welfare delivery, social and ideological coalitions, clear political messaging, and dedicated management until the last vote is polled,” the Chief Minister said in a post on X.
The leaders of the INDIA bloc were seasoned politicians capable of reading the message and planning strategically to address emerging challenges, he said.
“The result of this election does not whitewash the misdeeds and reckless actions of the ECI. The reputation of the #ECI is at its lowest point,” he said, criticising the EC.
Citizens of the country deserved a stronger and more impartial Election Commission, whose conduct of polls should inspire confidence even among those who do not win, Stalin said.
- 15 Nov 2025 7:01 AM IST
Here is the latst party-wise tally
Here is the latest break-up:
NDA: 202
BJP: 89
JDU: 85
LJP-R: 19
HAM: 5
RLM: 4
MGB/GRAND ALLIANCE: 35
RJD: 25
Congress 6
CPI-ML: 2
IIP: 1
CPI-M: 1
- 14 Nov 2025 10:00 PM IST
Not fair from the beginning, says Rahul
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has termed the Bihar Assembly results as 'truly surprising' and said 'we could not achieve victory in an election that was not fair from the very beginning'.
He also said the Congress and the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance will conduct an in-depth review of the poll results and make more effective efforts to save democracy.
'I express my heartfelt gratitude to those millions of voters in Bihar who expressed their trust in the Mahagathbandhan. This result in Bihar is truly surprising. We could not achieve victory in an election that was not fair from the very beginning,' Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.
'This fight is for the protection of the Constitution and democracy. The Congress party and the INDIA bloc will conduct an in-depth review of this result and make more effective efforts to save democracy,' the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said.
- 14 Nov 2025 9:07 PM IST
Congress posts second worst show in Bihar's history
The Congress posted its second worst performance in Bihar’s electoral history, managing to win only six of the over 50 seats it contested and losing deposits in most seats as its “vote chori” pitch failed to make any impact on the ground.
The scale of the Congress’s debacle was such that the party could manage to just finish ahead of Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM and Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM), which bagged five seats each.
The Congress tally was only better than the four seats it won in 2010, getting a vote share of only 8.75 per cent compared to the 8.17 per cent 15 years ago.
The rout of the Congress was so complete that its state president Rajesh Kumar lost to NDA’s HAM candidate Lalan Ram in Kutumba.
- 14 Nov 2025 8:53 PM IST
DyCM Vijay Kumar Sinha of BJP wins Lakhisarai seat
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Vijay Kumar Sinha won the Lakhisarai seat by 24,940 votes, defeating his nearest Congress rival Amaresh Kumar, according to the Election Commission.
Sinha polled 1,22,408 votes, while Kumar got 97,468 votes in the assembly elections held in two phases on November 6 and November 11.
Jan Suraaj Party candidate Suraj Kumar came third, getting 8,722 votes.
- 14 Nov 2025 8:50 PM IST
Md Shahabuddin's son Osama Shahab wins Raghunathpur seat
Osama Shahab, son of deceased gangster-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin, who was a several-term MP from Siwan, won the Raghunathpur assembly seat in Bihar.According to the EC website, RJD candidate Osama Shahab defeated his nearest rival, Vikas Kumar Singh of the JD(U), by a margin of 9,248 votes. Shahab bagged 88,278 votes, while Singh secured 79,030 votes.Top NDA leaders had criticised the RJD's move to field Osama in the assembly polls and alleged that the decision to nominate him indicated the "return of jungle raj". - 14 Nov 2025 8:22 PM IST
Modi attributes Bihar victory to women and youth
PM Narendra Modi says, “Today, I congratulate the Election Commission, our security forces, and the conscious voters of Bihar. The country is proud of all of you.”
“The Bihar elections have proven another thing. Now, the country’s voters, especially our young voters, take voter list purification very seriously. The youth of Bihar have also overwhelmingly supported voter list purification. And I believe that for the sanctity of democracy, every voter has their importance and rights. Now, it is the responsibility of every party to activate their parties at the polling booths and enthusiastically participate in the voter list purification work. Contribute 100%, so that voter lists can be fully purified in other places as well...”
He added that with the new government, “the NDA is now moving towards a golden journey of 25 years in Bihar. Bihar has ensured that Jungle Raj will never return to this great land of Bihar. Today’s victory belongs to the mothers, sisters, and daughters of Bihar who endured the terror of Jungle Raj for years under RJD rule. It belongs to the youth of Bihar whose future was ruined by the terror of Congress and the Red Flag people. Today, that Red Corridor, those days of terror, are history. Bihar is moving forward on the path of development, and this journey is not going to stop now...”
- 14 Nov 2025 8:17 PM IST
Bihar has paved the way for BJP’s victory in Bengal: Modi
“Ganga flows through Bihar and reaches Bengal. Bihar has also paved the way for the BJP’s victory in Bengal. I also congratulate the brothers and sisters of Bengal. Now, together with you, the BJP will uproot jungle raj from West Bengal as well,” says PM Modi.
