Nitish Kumar

The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) emerged as the ?Big Brother? in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) after the party managed to secure 74 seats in comparison to 42 seats by the Janta Dal United (JD (U)) in the Bihar elections 2020. The NDA got a majority with 125 seats out of the total 243 seats. The NDA hit the majority mark of 122 at 2:57 am on Wednesday, November 11.

With 75 seats, the Opposition, led by Rashtriya Janta Dals (RJD) Tejashwi Yadav, emerged as the single-largest party. The Mahagathbandhan, which is a tie-up of RJD, Congress and the Left parties, including Community Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI (ML)), the Community Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), secured a total of 110 seats.

However, the RJD alleged foul play by local administration in as many as eight constituencies in declaring the results. It claimed the alliance had secured a total of 119 seats and would be moving the Election Commission against the administration against the same.

One of the RJD leaders said, They first told our candidates they have won by 500-600 votes, but later said you have lost by 12, 13 votes.”Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and Vikassheel Insaan Party got four seats each.

Now, the possibility of JD (U) leader Nitish Kumar returning as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the fourth time entirely depends on its ally ? BJP. However, senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya claimed that the BJP would stick to its promise of Nitish Kumar returning as the CM.

Out of nearly 7.3 crore voters, 57.09% (a little over four crore) had cast votes in the polls.

Final tally:

BJP JD (U) : 125

RJD Congress Left: 110

AIMIM: 5