6 Things To Know About The Bihar Election Results

BENGALURU: The much awaited election results of the Bihar Assembly are out, the pre-elections campaigns kept state’s political affairs busy and the two politically allied groups did it vigorously. Similarly, the state was unconventionally turned into political battle field for Janata Parivar (JP) and National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

Consequently, the outcome has yet again proved the popularity of the Nitish Kumar and associated parties of JP in the state. On the other hand, by facing deeply dismaying defeat, BJP and its allies of NDA have accepted the judgment of the voters and are all set wield the opposition, hence here goes the list of major points on elections results, as reported by the The Indian Express.

Nitish Kumar:

Nitish Kumar flattered the elections, despite the fact that he was not a part of elections. Kumar is the most prominent leader of the Janata Dal (United) and also held the incumbent Chief Minister (CM) post till the commencement of the elections. Likewise, Kumar has held the respective post for five times in his political drop and as a consequence of the results, it is no wonder if he begins his yet another CM tenure.

Janata Parivar:

Same as the previous elections, JDU faced the election by leading the Janata Parivar, a syndicate formed by Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Janata Dal (Secular), Indian National Lok Dal and Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya), in later developments, Indian National Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party also joined the conglomeration. Janata Parivar, was headed by the in-office Chief Minister.

National Democratic Alliance Front:

National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) joined by the Lok Janshakti Party, the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party and Hindustani Awam Morcha. The cartel was headed by the Sushil Modi, a prominent member of the BJP.

Constituencies, Reservation and Election:

The Bihar state legislative assembly elections were held for all the 243 constituencies of the state. Subsequently, results decided the fate of the 3450 candidates and 272 women candidates. The Election Commission of India decided to conduct elections in five Phases and so it happened on 12 October, 16 October, 28 October, 1 November and 5 November. Surprisingly, 56.8 percent of voter turned up for voting, in this election, which is the highest average after 2000 elections.

Results:

On 9^th of this month, counting of votes began approximately around 8 Am and the result was out by noon. The results sent turmoil to Delhi, as the NDA was declared defeated and the Janata Parivar, worker rejoiced the alliance victory on 178 constituencies, while NDA tumbled by acquiring merely 58. Since, Janata Parivar had crossed the magic number 122, it was declared as the winner of the elections that had aroused the curiosity nationwide.

Relatively, BJP emerged as the largest party among its alliance by winning 53 seats, Lok Janshakti Party, the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party and Hindustani Awam Morcha won 2, 2 and 1 seat respectively. In contrast, among the winning consortium, RJD emerged as the largest party, as its triumphant on 8o seats, further JDU and INC won 71 and 27 seats respectively.

Aftermath:

Though, Kumar is possible to posses CM post yet again, the process seems swirled, as the Lalu Prasad Yadav led RJD has won higher number of constituencies compared to the JDU. Supplementing the argument sons of Yadav, Tejaswi Prasad Yadav and Tej Pratap have debuted in the elections and have won on high margins against their opponents, thus, leaving apart the CM chair to Kumar, RJD may lobby for other powerful ministries.

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