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Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretariat successful Kerala has squarely blamed the Congress enactment for dismally failing to cobble unneurotic a broad-based conjugation of secular, antiauthoritarian and determination parties to thwart the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance’s march to triumph successful the Bihar Assembly elections.
CPI(M) State caput M V Govindan told a property league connected Saturday (November 15, 2025) that had the Congress taken the work to retard the NDA successful Bihar earnestly and with tactical diligence, the electoral representation successful the State would person been starkly different.
He said the Congress ill-advisedly undermined the chances of anti-BJP parties, including determination outfits, by fielding candidates successful what it termed “friendly matches”.
For one, Mr Govindan pointed retired that Congress fielded candidates successful 4 seats wherever the Communist Party of India (CPI), an INDIA bloc ally, was contesting. “In 1 constituency, the votes polled by CPI and Congress candidates surpassed that garnered by the NDA campaigner by a wide margin”, helium said.
Rebel menace
Mr Govindan stated that the Congress’ campaigner enactment was riven by determination feuding, resulting successful “a rebel menace” successful scores of winnable constituencies, further advantaging the BJP by splitting anti-incumbency votes.
Mr Govindan singled retired the All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide secretary, [Organisation], for blame.
“Mr Venugopal, who is 2nd lone to President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi successful the AICC hierarchy, forsook his Bihar work to feverishly carve a enactment niche for himself successful Kerala politics, by intervening incessantly successful provincial authorities up of the 2026 Assembly polls, giving nationalist issues the go-by”, helium stated.
Mr Govindan said it was not excessively precocious for the Congress enactment to analyse the canvass decision and close course.
Mr Govindan stated that the Election Commission of India (ECI) had advantaged the NDA by employing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters’ database to “disenfranchise” an estimated 65 lakhs to 1 crore voters successful Bihar.
“Unaccounted predetermination spending powered by achromatic money, mishandling of physics ballot machines (EVM), and a vicious communal run aligned with identitarian authorities alternatively than broad-based livelihood issues, catalysed by brazen maltreatment of power, supercharged the NDA’s predetermination juggernaut successful Bihar,” Mr Govindan said.
Mr Govindan accused the ECI of disregarding what helium termed “unabashed code-of-conduct violations” by the Nitish Kumar government.
“For one, the NDA authorities made a one-time outgo of ₹10,000 to voters aft the exemplary codification of behaviour came into force. The authorities beguiled voters by falsely claiming that the allowance is monthly. In contrast, the ECI struck down a akin determination by an incumbent authorities successful Tamil Nadu decades ago”, helium added.
