The BJP-led NDA secured 202 of the 243 seats in the Bihar assembly. Opposition parties have pointed to collusion between the BJP and the national election panel.
Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar, who has been Bihar’s chief minister since 2005, is set to head the new government.
India’s ruling coalition, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), has won a spectacular victory in the Bihar state elections. Of the 243 seats in the assembly, the NDA won 202, gaining an unusual 83 percent majority.
In the 2020 assembly election, the opposition alliance was in a neck-and-neck contest with the victorious NDA. It also put up a tough fight in the 2024 parliamentary election. However, it suffered one of its most humiliating defeats in recent years in the just-concluded assembly election.
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