Overview
- General secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya told PTI the outcome does not match the ground reality and is a virtual repeat of 2010.
- The party secured Paliganj and Karakat and reported razor-thin losses in Agiaon by 95 votes and in Balrampur, Dumraon and Zeeradei by under 3,000.
- Bhattacharya cited electoral roll figures of about 7.42 crore after the Special Intensive Revision versus 7,45,26,858 in a post-poll ECI note, questioning the increase of more than 300,000 electors.
- He alleged an unprecedented money-transfer programme worth roughly Rs 30,000 crore to about 3 crore beneficiaries influenced voting and violated election norms.
- CPI(ML) Liberation said it will conduct a thorough review of the setback, with its vote share near 3 percent, while its allegations are reported claims not independently verified in these accounts.