Nitish Kumar- led NDA was back in power in Bihar on Wednesday with a majority.
The RJD, which had contested 144 seats, had won 60 and was leading at 16 a strike rate of about 53 %, according to data on the Election Commission website at 11.15 pm on Tuesday.
Tiwari said the RJD under Tejashwi managed to win 75 seats, one more than the mighty BJP, where most of the top leaders campaigned against him and called him ‘jungleraj ka yuvraj’.
The campaigning by the two helped Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) garner votes, taking the NDA cross the majority-mark of 122. It bagged 125 seats, three more than the numbers required for a simple majority.
The RJD emerged as the single-largest party in the House with 75 seats.
In Kishanganj, the Congress candidate could manage the win by a close margin of around 1,000 votes as the AIMIM got more than 41,000 votes.
Of the 243 seats, 125 have gone in favour of the ruling coalition headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and 110 to rival Grand Alliance.
The Grand Alliance led by the Rashtriya Janata Dal had lost in a closely fought battle with the NDA led by the JD(U).
In Seemanchal, where the Grand Alliance could not repeat its performance, the AIMIM won five seats and senior leaders of the Congress — Abdul Jalil Mastan and Tausif Alam — lost to AIMIM candidates.
According to the party sources, the BJP won 13 of the 18 seats where Yogi Adityanath had campaigned.
Addressing journalists here on Tuesday, RJD spokesperson Manoj Jha said he wants to urge Chief Minister Nitish Kumar not to disrespect the people’s mandate.
JDU supporters have placed posters with the tagline of “No confusion, great combination”, having pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar on one poster.
Many smaller parties had formed alliances with the larger ones and tried to project themselves as an alternate political narrative to influence the voters, but the people failed to show any interest in them as evident from the trends.
Counting of votes across 55 counting centres in Bihar begun at 8 am today
Bihar Elections 2020: The National Democratic Alliance is surging ahead of the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar polls on Tuesday as the counting of votes for the 243 assembly seats is underway.
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram on Tuesday contradicted him by saying that EVMs are not to be blamed for electoral defeats.
Anant Singh, a friend-turned-foe of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, is contesting from Patna’s Mokama as a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate and leading by over 16,000 votes against his rival Rajeev Lochan Narayan Singh of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U).
The results of the much-anticipated Bihar Assembly elections 2020 will come today and it will be known who will be the next Chief Minister of Bihar.
From Bahardurganj assembly, Mohammad Anzar Nayeemi of AIMIM is leading by a margin of 1860 votes against Lakhan Lal Pandit of VIP.
A group of JDU supporters carrying traditional musical instruments were seen at party office in Patna.
As per the Election Commission website, four rounds of counting have been done for the 243 seats.
The BJP state unit chief also admitted that an anti-incumbency factor was there in Bihar polls this year as the party has been in the seat of power in the state for long.
Pushpam Priya Chaudhary is the daughter of former JDU MLC Vinod Chaudhary.
The latest election results show a clear lead for the NDA, with the BJP increasing its gap against the rest, the Opposition is holding onto hope given the peculiarity of counting in this election.
All eyes are on the counting across 55 centers in the state to see the outcome.