"The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), scored a massive victory in the recent legislative assembly elections in Bihar, one of the country's poorest yet most politically influential states. Located in northeastern India, the state is home to nearly 130 million people."
"After two phases of polling on November 6 and November 11, results from the Election Commission of India showed the NDA secured a landslide win in the 243-member legislature, bagging 202 seats with BJP alone taking 89. The Congress, India's main opposition party, had won just six seats, its weakest showing in the state's history."
"Prior to the elections, the Election Commission revised electoral rolls and removed nearly 10% of the state's 74 million voters from the lists. The commission said the revision was needed in the wake of large-scale emigration of laborers, young citizens becoming eligible to vote and non-reporting of deaths in the state. But the Congress said the move disenfranchised poor and minority voters."
"After the results were announced, Rahul Gandhi, the most prominent Congress politician, called the elections "unfair." "This result in Bihar is truly surprising. We could not achieve victory in an election that was not fair from the very beginning," Mr. Gandhi had said in a post on social media platform X."
The NDA achieved a decisive landslide in the Bihar legislative assembly, winning 202 of 243 seats, with the BJP taking 89 seats alone. Bihar, a populous and politically influential state with nearly 130 million residents, controls a large number of parliamentary seats and is viewed as a bellwether for the Hindi heartland. The Election Commission revised electoral rolls and removed nearly 10% of registered voters, citing emigration, newly eligible voters, and unreported deaths. The Congress said the roll revision disenfranchised poor and minority voters, and opposition leaders called the elections unfair and alleged institutional capture.
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