Overview
- The National Democratic Alliance scored a sweeping victory in the Bihar Assembly elections, prompting a celebratory address by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- Modi endorsed the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls and urged all parties to deploy booth-level workers to support voter-list purification.
- He framed the result as a shift powered by women and first-time voters, crediting their turnout with reshaping the state’s political landscape.
- Pointing to a peaceful process with no repolling, he contrasted this election with periods described as ‘jungle raj’ and with past Naxal-affected areas where voting once ended early.
- Bihar recorded 67.13% turnout, with women at 71.6% and men at 62.8%, while opposition parties continued to question the timing and conduct of the SIR and alleged vote theft.