The counting for the Bihar polls across 243 constituencies began at 8 am under tight security arrangements. The postal ballot counting started first which will be followed by EVM counting at 8:30 am.
"Zero repolls in Bihar Assembly Elections, 2025 • No re-polls requested by 2,616 candidates • No re-polls requested by 12 recognised political parties," the EC said in the note.
With the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 just hours away, the Additional Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Jogdande said that 27 observers have been deployed in the state by the Election Commission to monitor the preparations for counting.
Amid the opposition parties raising concerns over the counting process of the votes, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday said that the entire counting mechanism is absolute robust and the whole process is codified in a certain manner that no error can be found in the whole p