Speaking to ANI, he said, "Thanks to the people of Bihar for trusting Prime Minister Modi and the NDA, and giving the mandate to form the government with a massive majority. Certainly, we will strive to live up to the promises we have made and the expectations that the people of Bihar hav
Shashi Tharoor said, "It's a question of leading at the moment. They are leading by a rather large margin. But let's wait for the Election Commission to discuss and disclose the results."
According to Election Commission of India's data, after 20 rounds of the votes being counted, Congress candidate Pramod Jain emerged victorious receiving nearly 60 thousand votes. Jain had been leading in the polls since the vote counting started at 8 AM.
As the projections predict the ruling NDA's victory in the Bihar Assembly polls, BJP National Spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill on Friday said that the Gen Z of the state have voted for NDA and bid farewell to the "Thugbandhan's divisive chaos, confusion, provocative and inciting violence-loa
He termed the SIR as an "electoral conspiracy", asserting that after Bihar, it won't be possible in other states, including West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh or any other state.
CM Yadav also congratulated PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President JP Nadda, and the entire NDA alliance, including Nitish Kumar and Chirag Paswan, on the sweeping victory projections in the Bihar assembly polls.
In a bid to shed the "Jungle Raj" tag, he even left out RJD supremo Lalu Yadav from his posters, but he still had to bear the brunt of the controversial legacy of his family.
Once a dominant force in both national and state politics, Congress has now become a peripheral player in Bihar, often relegated to third or fourth place in the state. The party's last significant presence in the state's leadership was under Jagannath Mishra, who served as Chief Minister
The 2025 Bihar Assembly polls were considered as the litmus test for serving Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. However, Nitish Kumar has managed to steer the politics of Bihar around him in every Bihar election in the past over 20 years.
The counting follows two phases of polling held across the state on November 6 and November 11, culminating today in the final verdict across all 243 Assembly seats.