Bihar 2020 Results: Bihar Election Results Declared Early Wednesday Morning (Archive)
New Delhi:
Accusations by opposition parties of incorrectly counting votes and claims that the winning candidates in the Bihar elections did not receive confirmatory certificates are not based on facts, Election Commission sources said on Friday. The electoral body said the recount was “completely transparent” and “made in front of all parties.”
All political parties received round reports and no allegations were raised at the time, sources from electoral bodies also said, asking opposition parties, led by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of Tejashwi Yadav and Congress, to admit the mandate. public rather than leveling of accusations.
On Tuesday, while the votes were being counted, a process that took more than 15 hours due to Covid-related restrictions, the opposition claimed that 119 of its candidates were not receiving winning certificates due to pressure from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his government. .
The party had previously tweeted: “… Nitish Kumar’s administration is delaying the count by 10 seats. The candidates who won have not received certificates … Nitish Kumar and Sushil Kumar are putting pressure on the chief secretary officials for seats with low margins. ” . “
Congress backed these claims, saying that several of its candidates had also not received the winning certificates. Party spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala pointed to Rajapakar’s seat which he claimed had been won by Pratima Kumari (by 1,720 votes), but officials rejected the certificate.
The seat was subsequently declared for Ms. Kumari, who won by fewer than 1,500 JDU votes.
At a nightly press conference following the opposition’s allegations, the Electoral Commission denied that there was pressure from the government and noted that at the time of the RJD’s claims, only 146 (out of 243) seats had been declared.
The BJP-led NDA recorded a close victory over the mahaghathbandan led by Mr. Yadav, with the two alliances rarely having more than a dozen separate seats in trends. Finally, around 3 a.m. on Wednesday, the NDA was declared the winner with 125 seats to 110 for the opposition.
Throughout the day, the margin of advantage on various seats was less than 5,000. In 70 of these there were less than 1,000 votes, according to data from the Electoral Commission.
Individually, the BJP won 74 seats and the JDU 43. Yadav’s RJD emerged as the largest party with 75 seats. Congress won 19. The rest were won by smaller, independent parties.
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