Bihar Assembly
Election Results - 2015 brought back duo of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav strongly
on political map of Bihar and India. Counting of votes for election which was
held in 5 phases during October and November resulted in thumping win for Mahagathbandhan.
Out of 243 seats in Bihar Assembly, RJD-JDU-Congress bagged 178 seats crossing
2/3rd majority mark. While BJP led NDA who’s campaigned was centered
on Modi-Amit Shah duo managed only 58 seats. Most surprised package of these
results was RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav who made historic comeback on National
political scene with 80 seats becoming single largest Party.
Bihar voters decisively
voted to bring back Vikas Purush Nitish Kumar who made hat-trick to continue as
Chief Minister for next 5 years. JDU won 71 seats out 101 which they contested
while party got 64.2 lakh votes (16.8%). RJD with 80 out 100 seats got 69.95
lakh votes (18.4%). Bihar results came as big relief for Congress party which
won 27 out of 42 seats getting 25.4 lakh votes (6.7%). The combination of Yadav
and Muslim was intact with RJD-JDU coupled with considerable support from young
and female voters who supported Nitish Kumar’s Bihar development model.
For BJP, Bihar
is second consecutive huge defeat after crushing in Delhi in the hands of
Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The party could win just 53 seats
out of 157 fought getting 93.1 lakh votes (24.4%). The dismal performance of
its allies added woes of NDA as LJP (2/42), RLSP (2/23) and HAM (1/21) seats
fared poorly in election. The wave for Nitish Kumar was such that BJP lost
almost 5% vote share compared with Lok Sabha 2014 election. The RJD-JDU-Congress
got 41.9% votes while NDA 34.1% resulting in landslide victory for
Mahagathbandhan.
It would be
interesting to see how BJP reacts to these results in coming days and make
changes at both organizational as well as inside government. One is thing is
for sure that in India, nobody should take common voter for granted and continuous
performance evaluation goes on.
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