Bihar Assembly election | New House has to be constituted by November 29
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In a detailed contest that went down to the wire, the JD(U)–led NDA attained easy majority within the Bihar Assembly elections by successful 125 seats whereas the RJD-led Opposition UPA bought 110 seats and eight seats went to others within the 243-member Assembly. The new Assembly has to be constituted by November 29.
Under the NDA coalition, the BJP secured the utmost variety of 74 seats whereas alliance accomplice JD(U) was restricted to simply 43 and its different two allies — the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and the Vikasheel Insaan Party — to 4 seats every. HAM(S) chief and former Chief (*29*) Jitan Ram Manjhi received his seat from Imamganj in Gaya district whereas VIP president Mukesh Sahni misplaced from the Simri-Bakhtiyarpur seat in Saharsa district.
Among the Mahagathbandhan allies, the RJD bought 75 seats, 5 lower than its 2015 Assembly ballot determine, whereas the Congress received a mere 19 of the 70 seats it contested. But the three Left events — the CPI (Marxist-Leninist), the CPI and the CPI(M) — received 16 of the 29 seats they contested. The CPI(ML) received 12 of the 19 seats it contested — principally in Bhojpur and Jehanabad districts — and the opposite two received two seats every. The RJD emerged as the only largest get together within the elections.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) too made its mark considerably within the Muslim-dominated Seemanchal (border) areas by successful 5 of the 24 seats it contested. It reduce into the vote share of the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan among the many minority voters.
Similarly, the Lok Janshakti Party might win only one seat — Matihani in Begusarai district — however marred the prospects of practically 20 JD(U) candidates. “We did what we fought for…we contested to defeat the JD(U) candidates and to make the BJP stronger,” stated LJP chief Chirag Paswan on Wednesday. A Bahujan Samaj Party candidate and an unbiased too received from the Chainpur and the Chakai constituencies respectively.
The RJD-led UPA, whose ballot prospects appeared shiny within the exit ballot predictions, lodged a criticism with the Election Commission alleging that “on the direction from the Chief Minister’s office, local officials did not issue winning certificate to our candidates who had won the poll by thin margin”. Several candidates received/misplaced the ballot by a margin of lower than 200 votes like RJD candidate Shakti Singh Yadav dropping within the Hilsa seat in Nalanda district towards JD(U) candidate Krishnamurari Sharan alias Prem Mukhia by a mere 12 votes. In Bhore (Gopalganj) and Ramgarh (Bhabhua) seats too, the successful margins for candidates had been practically 200 votes.
“Whatever was the result of the poll, it underlined three important things: that there was anti-Nitish feeling reeling in the State, the poll established RJD leader and party’s anointed heir Tejashwi Yadav as a leader out of his father Lalu Prasad’s towering shadow and, the Left parties saw their electoral revival after a long time,” political analyst and former professor of Patna University Nawal Kishore Choudhury informed The Puucho. “Two months ago, the electoral scenario was one-sided in favour of the NDA but when the campaign kickstarted, Tejashwi Yadav turned the battle into a close fight,” he stated.
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