STATE TIMES NEWS
NEW DELHI: Terming the Bihar poll results a “victory of every Bihari”, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the overwhelming mandate for the NDA is people’s stamp of approval on its work for development, women’s safety and the welfare of the poor.
In a series of posts on X in Hindi, Shah said the people of Bihar have conveyed the mood of the entire nation that the purification of voter lists is essential, and there is no place for politics against it.
The NDA camp has won at least 97 of the 243 Bihar Assembly seats. The BJP won 55 seats and was leading in 35 other constituencies, while its ally JD(U) secured 33 seats and was ahead in 51 other constituencies, according to the Election Commission.
The opposition INDIA bloc, on the other hand, has won only 11 seats so far. RJD bagged eight seats and was leading in 17 other constituencies, while Congress won one seat and was ahead in five. CPI(ML) Liberation won one seat and was leading in one other constituency CPI(M) also won one seat.
Shah said that in the last 11 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has worked wholeheartedly for Bihar and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has worked to pull the state out of the darkness of ‘jungle raj’.
“A heartfelt salute to the people of ‘Bihar Bhumi’, the protectors of knowledge, hard work and democracy,” he said.