Overview
- Counting delivered a landslide for the National Democratic Alliance in the Bihar assembly elections on Friday, with the opposition alliance trailing.
- Congress leaders Pawan Khera and Udit Raj blamed the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, calling the outcome one-sided and alleging vote theft.
- Khera cast the contest as between Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the people of Bihar and mocked him as writing “To Serve with Love” for the prime minister.
- Election Commission officials rejected the accusations, reporting zero appeals during the roll revision and calling it the best performance under CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
- The Mahagathbandhan said it had released evidence of fraud, while Congress figures claimed mass voter deletions, assertions the Election Commission dismissed.