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Union Minister Giriraj Singh connected Friday (November 14, 2025) projected a landslide triumph for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) successful the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections, arsenic the ruling confederation leads successful galore Assembly constituencies amid the counting of votes.
"I was saying from time 1 that we volition person a landslide triumph successful Bihar. The radical of Bihar were ever truthful enthusiastic astir this government. The radical of Bihar person voted for peace, justness and development," Mr. Singh told ANI.
Congress MP Manickam Tagore contiguous alleged that ballot deletion happened for voters who enactment the opposition, saying that ideology can't past if the playing tract is uneven.
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"When you delete 65 lakh voters — mostly from the opposition's voters — what bash you expect connected effect day? Democracy cannot past if the playing tract is tilted earlier the lucifer adjacent begins," Mr. Tagore posted connected X.
The ruling NDA has crossed the halfway people of 122, portion the Opposition's Mahagathbandhan is trailing down arsenic per the Election Commission of India.
According to the leads connected 229 seats, the NDA was starring astatine 167 seats, with the Bharatiya Janata Party's pb connected 71 seats and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) up successful 72 constituencies astatine the clip of publishing this article.
Chirag Paswan's LJP(RV) was starring connected 18 seats.
The BJP and the JD(U) person maintained a precocious conversion complaint of 67% and 64%, respectively.
Mahagathbandhan was trailing behind, with a pb of conscionable 60 seats.
While Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) was starring connected 43 seats, its allies showed an underwhelming show arsenic per the aboriginal trends.
Congress was starring successful 8 seats, portion the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation was starring successful 6 seats.
Meanwhile, AIMIM is up successful 2 seats.
Among salient faces, Deputy CMs Vijay Kumar Sinha and Samrat Choudhary were starring connected the Lakhisarai and Tarapur seats, respectively.
BJP's Mangal Pandey was starring successful Siwan, portion Mahagathbandhan's CM look Tejashwi Yadav was up successful Raghopur.
Counting of votes for each 243 constituencies began astatine 8 a.m. amid choky security. Officials began tallying postal ballots, with the counting of EVM votes scheduled to commencement astatine 8:30 a.m.
Elaborate information arrangements are successful place, with 4,372 counting tables and implicit 18,000 counting agents overseeing the process.
Most exit polls foretell a comfy triumph for the NDA, with immoderate projecting the Mahagathbandhan to win.
According to the ECI's authoritative property note, 2,616 candidates and 12 recognised governmental parties participated successful the two-phase polls connected November 6 and 11, and nary requested repolling successful immoderate constituency.
The main predetermination contention successful the Bihar elections is betwixt the National Democratic Alliance, led by CM Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav's Mahagathbandhan.
In the 2020 election, the NDA secured a bulk successful the assembly and won 125 seats, with Nitish Kumar again taking oath arsenic Chief Minister.
However, successful August 2022, Nitish Kumar broke the confederation with the BJP and resigned arsenic Chief Minister, forming a authorities with the RJD-Congress-led Mahagathbandhan.
He had emerged arsenic a cardinal fig successful the enactment of the combined absorption INDIA bloc.
However, Mr. Kumar's romance with the RJD lasted for little than 2 years, and successful January 2024, up of the parliamentary polls, Mr. Kumar returned to the NDA.BJP improved its presumption betwixt the 2015 and 2020 polls. It won 53 of 157 seats it contested successful 2015 and 74 of 110 seats successful 2020.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal has besides shown a beardown performance, having won 80 of the 101 seats it contested successful 2015 and 75 of the 144 seats it enactment up candidates successful during the 2020 polls.
JD(U) saw a dip successful its show successful the past 2 polls. It won 71 seats of 101 it contested successful 2015 and 43 of 115 successful 2020. Congress besides saw a diminution successful show from 27 seats it won successful 2015 to 19 successful 2020.
