Overview
- Final counts left Congress with victories in only six of the 60 constituencies it contested, a result some analysts linked to a Chhath Puja controversy.
- The party ran in alliance with the RJD and accepted 60 seats to contest, down from 77 in the 2020 assembly elections.
- Winners were Surendra Prasad (Valmiki Nagar), Abhishek Ranjan (Chanpatia), Manoj Bishwas (Forbesganj), Abidur Rahman (Araria), Md. Qamrul Hoda (Kishanganj) and Manohar Prasad Singh (Manihari).
- Congress leaders blamed the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls for the setback, and Rahul Gandhi called the EC’s response to his queries “excuses.”
- The outcome extends a decades-long decline in Bihar, with past tallies including 196 seats in 1985, 27 in 2015 and 19 in 2020.