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According to trends on the Election Commission’s website, the Tejashwi Yadav-led party has so far secured 22.79 percent of the vote share, which is 2.27 percent more than the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and 3.8 percent more than Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU).
RJD suffers major defeat
Patna: The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) appears poised to form a government in Bihar. Meanwhile, the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) suffered a major defeat. However, the RJD has reason to be happy.
According to trends on the Election Commission's website, the Tejashwi Yadav-led party has so far secured 22.79 percent of the vote share, which is 2.27 percent more than the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and 3.8 percent more than Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United (JDU).
The RJD, which contested 143 seats in the 243-member assembly, is currently leading in only 25 seats. This is likely to be the RJD's second-worst performance in a Bihar election after 2010, when it won only 22 seats.
Tejashwi Yadav, the Chief Ministerial candidate of the opposition Grand Alliance, has won his Raghopur seat. Meanwhile, the Congress is leading in five seats, and the CPI(ML) Liberation in two.
On the other hand, the NDA is currently leading in 204 seats, with the BJP leading in 92, the JDU in 84, Union Minister Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) in 19, Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha in five, and Rajya Sabha MP Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Morcha in four.
Prashant Kishore-led Jan Suraj Party and Mukesh Sahni's Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) are trailing in all the seats they contested.
Voting took place in two phases in Bihar – November 6 and November 11 – and voter turnout was over 66 percent, the highest ever in the state since 1951.
