According to the final results, in the NDA bloc, the BJP obtained 74 seats, with 82.01,298 votes.
New Delhi:
Just 84,900 votes had helped Bihar’s chief minister, Nitish Kumar, win a fourth consecutive term, data from the Election Commission shows a day after the vote counting in the recently concluded state assembly elections. The overall difference in votes obtained by the ruling NDA and the opposition alliance Rashtriya Janata Dal, Congress and the left was just 0.2 percent, the data shows.
According to the final results, in the NDA bloc, the BJP obtained 74 seats, with 82.01,298 votes.
Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United, who had an unprecedented dismal performance, handing over the job of older brother to the BJP ally after winning just 43 seats, garnered 64.84,414 votes.
Former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM, who won four seats in his political debut, garnered 3.75,564 votes.
Mukesh Sahni’s VIP got 6.39,342 votes.
In the opposition Gran Alianza, Congress, whose count slid from 27 seats in 2015 to 19 seats, obtained 39.94,912 votes.
Rashtriya Janata Dal, which became the party with the largest number of seats with 75 seats, obtained 96.63,584 votes.
The CPI-ML, the marginal party on the left that won 11 seats, won 12,50,869 votes.
The CPI obtained 3.49,489 votes for the two seats they obtained and the CPM – 3.56,855 for its three seats.
The overall difference was about 84,900 votes, a small margin in most state results. Overall, the ruling NDA won 125 seats, against 110 seats for the opposition alliance.
The result was announced at 4 a.m. on Wednesday after nearly 20 hours of excited counting.
Late at night, when the RJD fell behind the BJP after several ups and downs, the party claimed that the opposition alliance had won 119 seats.
By posting a list on Twitter, the party claimed that the winners were being denied their certificates because of a conspiracy by Prime Minister Nitish Kumar and his administration, which was putting pressure on the Election Commission.
In response, the commission, during an overnight briefing, said that when RJD’s claim was tweeted, only 146 results were reported, indicating that the alliance’s claim was not feasible.
This morning, Prime Minister Nitish Kumar, who got a fourth consecutive term thanks to the generosity of the BJP, tweeted his thanks to the people and his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“The people decide. I bow to them for giving the NDA the majority. I am also grateful for the support of Prime Minister Modi,” Kumar tweeted.
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