Bairaj Chawalgami
After intense and emphatic campaigning, the 2 phase Bihar polls came to an end and the counting of votes began at 8am on 14th November Friday. The outcome of polls was in accordance with the various exit polls as majority of pollsters predicted majority win for NDA. Now when the results were out, it showed that NDA won the Bihar Assembly polls and got more than two third majority in the house of 234 MLA’s. It was an emphatic ,decisive and significant win for the NDA. The NDA got a bumper win with 202 seats in its kitty and the victory is historical and unprecedented and the Mahagathbandhan was severely rejected and was defeated. All the claims of grand alliance and its leaders such as Tajeswhi Yadav and Rahul Gandhi were dashed to the ground as the RJD-Congress combine had a great setback and drubbing as RJD got only 35 seats ,78 seats less from its tally of the last assembly polls and the position of both the RJD as well as the Congress was worse. The congress had to contend with only four or five seats.BJP on its own got 91 seats and tops the list with JD[U] coming second with 81 seats. The National Democratic Alliance[NDA] has secured a landslide ”bumper win” in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections ,achieving a commanding majority well beyond 122 -seat mark required to form the government. The mahagathbandhan opposition has been left far behind and they could not even get the previous tally. The NDA got 202 seats that is a significant increase from its 2020 performance, where it won just 125 seats in a very tight contest. In contrast, the opposition Grand alliance had to contend with two- digit number of 36 seats which is far behind its expectation. In this crucial Assembly elections, the people of Bihar have voted for development, employment, peace, prosperity, rejection of the jungle raj and lawlessness as well as dacoity and deceit as the Mahagathbandhan only made hallow and shallow promises which could not be fulfilled. People gave their approval for the developmental and caste engineering of Modi-Nitish duo and rejected the parties which stood for negative politics and there was pro incumbency in these election and anti-incumbency was totally absent. The shrewd voters of Bihar trusted the leadership of Modi and Nitish and voted decisively voted in favour of NDA and showed the forces of lawlessness and gundagaridi their place. The leaders of Mahagathbandhan were very optimistic about their win in these elections as they talked for change and were of the view that this time people will vote for change and against the NDA-JD[U] combine but what happened on the day of voting and reckoning was totally different.NDA got a historical victory and the RJD-Congress combine was almost decimated. Several factors contributed to the NDA’s dominant performance and these are as under-A-Unified Support-The alliance successfully retained the support of non-Yadav backward and extremely backward castes, as well as Dalit voters. The social engineering and cite equation helped the NDA to secure a most comfortable win. NDA surpassed all its previous records in performance and got much more seats than it had won way back in 2020 polls. B-Vote for Development-The voters of Bihar this time voted for the developmental politics of Modi and Nitish Kumar and the people gave a landslide victory to BJP/NDA riding the wave of development. C-Vote for Bihar’s employment-Migration of the labours to other state-s from Bihar is a problem which exists in Bihar and this migration of Bihar’s labours and skilled artisans to other states for the employment is a serious issue facing Bihar and this should stop.NDA has promised employment to the youth of the state and containing the migration of the workforce. Thus, people voted for employment guarantee as well-D-Mahila’s voted en- bloc in favour of the NDA as it assured security, safety, development and many programmes were promised by Nitish and Modi which will ameliorate the fate of the women in Bihar.-E-Rejection of the negative politics of Mahagathbandhan and also the defeat of those who were the advocates of jungle raj. These and some other factors worked wonders for the NDA and turned the applecart its favour.-F-Social engineering and caste equation and the emphasis for the inclusive politics and inclusive development which also included backwards and Dalits played a pivotal role in the emphatic win of the NDA.-G-Close coordination between all the allies of NDA and their focus on voters led to the significant victory of the NDA/BJP trouncing the RJD-Congress combine.-H-Clean image and pro incumbency vote ensured the victory of NDA this time proving all poll projection correct unlike that of the 2020 assembly elections. NDA has promised an amount of 1lack 90 thousand in the bank accounts of all eligible women. The NDA made its biggest victory since 2010 with stunning performance this time proving all exit polls correct. The BJP on its own won more than 90 seats which is really a big achievement for the saffron party as it surpassed all previous records of the elections.BJP won more than 90 seats which is unprecedented. JD[U] won 83 seats and LPJ [RV] won 20 seats which is no less than a miracle and Chirag Paswan are the strong supporter of NDA and it is LPJ which ensured the big win for the NDA in these elections. The results indicate that NDA’s social engineering math was the major winning combination in the election, with BJP bringing in the upper caste voter. Nitish consolidating EBC, voters and Chirag ‘s LJP and other parties delivering the OBC votes. The election results for the NDA are an impressive improvement from the 2020 figures ,when NDA posted a narrow victory with a combined seat share of 125.The BJP emerged as the single largest party in these elections with its tally of 91 in 2025 from 74 in 2020.The JDU is close to second with much better performance of about 83 seats from its 34 in 2020.Written off time and again ,Nitish Kumar has again shown that his grit cuts deeper than any criticism that comes his way.The JD[U] stalwart ushered in an era of development and peace in a state that suffered heavily during the jungle raj days of Lalu-Rabri. He gave Bihar a much- needed touch of governance while delivering the basics -from roads to industry. He also championed the cause of women, took a bold gamble by imposing prohibition and improved the law and – order situation and all this had a positive and salutary impact and influence on voters and they overwhelmingly voted in favour of the NDA and all this and other factors such as M factor led to the landslide victory for the NDA. Tajashwi Yadav’s wait to assume the chief minister will continue for now as the RJD scion failed to dislodge ”Chacha” Nitish and carve a space for himself. His, political ambition was checkmated by the voter’s choice. Modi factor and magic worked wonders yet again with the prime minister helping the BJP/NDA to have stunning win and dislodge regional players to emerge as the single largest party. To sum up, it the election results can be described as the Tsunami of NDA/BJP. It was in fact the bumper victory for the NDA.
