Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal on Thursday held a meeting at the party headquarters ‘Indira Bhawan’ in the national capital and reviewed the reasons for the party’s defeat in the recently concluded Bihar Assembly elections. The Congress contested 60 seats in the Bihar elections and won six, while its vote share was less than 10 percent, which proved to be a major setback for the party contesting the elections, being part of the grand alliance.
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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the largest opposition party in the alliance, also performed poorly in the recent elections and won only 25 of the 143 seats. The NDA registered a historic landslide victory in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections, winning 202 out of 243 seats, while the grand alliance got only 35 seats. The ruling alliance secured a three-fourth majority in the 243-member Bihar Assembly, which is the second time the NDA crossed the 200-seat mark in the state elections. In 2010, it won 206 seats.
In the NDA, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 89 seats, Janata Dal (United) 85, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) (LJPRV) 19, Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) (HAMS) five and Rashtriya Lok Morcha four. Apart from RJD and Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (Liberation) [सीपीआई (एमएल) (एल)] Other grand alliance parties including the Indian National Congress won two, the Inclusive Party of India (IIP) won one, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) won one. [सीपीआई (एम)] Won one seat.
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All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) won five seats, while Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won one seat. Bihar Assembly elections were held in two phases on 6 and 11 November. Bihar recorded a historic 67.13 per cent turnout, the highest since 1951, with women voters outnumbering men (71.6 per cent vs 62.8 per cent).