Overview
- The NDA raced past the 200-seat mark in Bihar’s 243-member assembly, with the BJP emerging as the single-largest party and reporting roughly a 90% strike rate.
- Congress performed poorly, winning 6 of the 61 seats it contested as the Mahagathbandhan/INDIA alliance slumped well below its 2020 tally.
- Rahul Gandhi said the election was not fair from the beginning and described the result as truly surprising, while thanking voters who backed the alliance.
- Jairam Ramesh and other Congress leaders alleged large-scale vote theft, naming the prime minister, the home minister and the Election Commission, though the claims have not been independently verified.
- Specific irregularity allegations included fake or duplicate voter entries and missing or destroyed polling-station CCTV footage, as Congress vowed an in-depth review and continued mobilisation to defend democratic institutions.