Bihar 2020 election result: Chirag Paswan was alone in this election.
Patna, Bihar:
Chirag Paswan, widely regarded as the x factor in the Bihar elections, did not live up to his claims and won only one of the 243 seats in the state, but calls it a victory saying he “achieved” what he set out to do.
The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) said today that it wanted the BJP to come out stronger in the elections and was happy with the impact of its party.
“Like all parties, I too would like to win as many seats as possible, but my goal for this election was to ensure that the BJP emerges as a strong party in the state and we are happy with the impact we have had”, Chirag Paswan he told reporters this morning.
When he launched his solo campaign for Bihar, the 37-year-old actor-turned-politician had said that his only agenda in competing separately from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was to defeat Nitish Kumar so that his own party could form a government. with the BJP.
The LJP ran candidates against Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) and is estimated to have cut his votes across the board.
Even Sushil Kumar Modi of the BJP, Nitish Kumar’s senior deputy minister, admitted that JDU possibly lost 20 seats due to the Paswan factor. All in all, Chirag Paswan may have cost the NDA nearly 40 seats.
Nitish Kumar’s party ended with 43 seats, a big drop from 71 in 2015. But the BJP increased its tally from 53 to 74 to emerge as the lead partner, adding further weight to speculation that it allowed Chirag Paswan to function. like a disruptor. for Nitish Kumar.
Consequently, Mr. Paswan changed his goalpost today.
When asked about the turn in the failure of his party, he said: “What is the definition of defeat? The party has increased its percentage of votes.”
The JDU is resentful of the coup and one of its top leaders hinted that the party is upset with its ally BJP. “Chirag Paswan should have been denounced and controlled from the beginning,” JDU spokesman KC Tyagi said on Tuesday in one of his first interviews in which he had admitted defeat prematurely due to his party’s disappointing results.
Paswan had said last month that he had had talks with BJP leaders, specifically Amit Shah and JP Nadda, before announcing that he would run candidates against Nitish Kumar’s party. “It’s not that I sat across the table from Amit Shah and I was breaking the news to him. I met him once and told him that it wouldn’t be possible for him to join me and share a seat, but could it be possible for him to do so? ? put my Bihar First, Bihari First, agenda on the NDA agenda. I said if not, let me turn my candidates against JDU. He didn’t say anything about that … He was quiet, he was listening. ” Paswan told NDTV.
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