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In a first, the Bihar Assembly polls this clip saw nary voting time deaths and nary re-polling being ordered successful immoderate constituency.
In the past Assembly polls, the State witnessed violence, deaths and re-election, authoritative information shows.
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A comparative look astatine past polls underscores a melodramatic change: the 1985 elections saw 63 deaths and repolling successful 156 booths; successful 1990, 87 deaths were reported; successful 1995, the elections were postponed 4 times owed to rampant unit nether Chief Election Commissioner T.N. Seshan; and successful 2005, repolling was ordered successful 660 booths.
In contrast, the 2025 elections recorded zero repolling and zero violence, an result the NDA has hailed arsenic a testament to improved instrumentality and order.
Bihar, India’s 3rd astir populous authorities and 1 that is astir 89% rural, has agelong played a captious relation successful shaping nationalist politics. The NDA enactment has attributed the existent mandate to the state’s beardown agrarian enactment basal and what it describes arsenic Bihar’s “vote for dignity and self-respect.”
The counting of votes for this year's two-phase Assembly polls is underway successful Bihar.
