Patna: The Bihar Assembly election outcomes ended on a photo finish note with certain candidates winning with very thin margins, and the losing candidates crying foul. After the announcement of the Bihar Assembly elections results, there were eight candidates who emerged victorious in the election with extremely narrow margins. In a nail-biting end, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate Shakti Singh Yadav lost the election to JD(U) candidate Krishna Murari Sharan with only 12 votes. Yadav obtained 61,836 votes, while Sharan obtained 61,848 votes.
Surendra Mehta of the BJP defeated Awadesh Rai with a margin of 484 votes in Bachhwara.
In the Bhakri seat, Suryakant Paswan of the CPI defeated Rama Shankar Prasad of the BJP with a margin of 777 votes.
Surendra Kumar of the JD(U) on Barbigha seat defeated Gajanand Sahani of the Congress with a margin of 113 votes.
Sunil Kumar of the JD(U) defeated Jitendra Prasad of the CPI(ML) with a margin of 462 seats from the Bhorey seat.
Raj Kumar Singh of the LJP defeated Narendra Singh assumed name Bogo Singh with a margin of 333 votes in Matihani.
Sudhakar Singh of the RJD defeated Ambika Singh of the BSP with a margin of 189 votes in Ramgarh.
Anil Sahani of the RJD defeated Kedar Gupta of the BJP with a margin of 712 in the Kurhani seat.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the final outcome around 4 a.m. with the NDA getting 125 seats only three votes more than the magical figure of 122. The Mahagathbandhan was able to get just 110, AIMIM got 5, BSP got one, LJP got one and an independent got one seat.
The BJP arose as the largest party in the NDA with 74 seats, and it will assume a greater role in the following government in Bihar. Nonetheless, there is no doubt over the Chief Minister’s post, which is for Nitish Kumar. The JD(U) confronted serious loss in this poll. In 2015, it had managed to get 69 seats and this time it had obtained about just 43 seats.
The Bihar election ended up being a match between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Tejashwi Yadav, and Nitish Kumar has thus gone under the shadow of Modi. Analysts state the LJP has assumed the role of “Vote Katwa (Vote cutter)” in this election. It was unsuccessful in completing great numbers, however, it has helped the BJP to turn into the largest party in the NDA. The LJP had fielded candidates against the JD(U), where the JD(U) was in a direct battle with the Mahagathbandhan. It had barely put any candidates on the seats where BJP was contesting.
Nitish Kumar played an emotional card about the election being his last one.
Prior on Tuesday night, the RJD claimed that Nitish Kumar applied stress upon the Returning Officers for recounting on at least 12 constituencies. It’s chief Manoj Jha gave a complaint to the EC about the Grand Alliance candidates being wrongfully defeated through cheating.
The weak performance of the Congress party is set back for the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar. It has contested on 70 seats and managed to get only 19 seats.
