JD-U-BJP plus ... lead in 151 showing gain of number of seats than 2020 tally.
The RJD plus leading in 80 showing loss of several seats, according to tends. As many as 11 Exit polls had given NDA convincing win.
Counting of votes for #BiharElections2025 begins. The fate of candidates in all 243 constituencies across 38 districts of the state to be decided today.
Counting of votes also begins for Assembly by-elections in 8 constituencies across 6 States and one UT.
As counting of votes began for the Bihar Assembly polls, the Janata Dal (United) said a government for good governance is returning to the state within a few hours.
Nitish Kumar’s ascendancy to the coveted office in country’s renowned “badly-governed” state in 2005 November was not an easy cakewalk.
For long, Bihar’s nosedive decline in development graph, pathetic roads and unemployment proved only a metropolitan myth as Lalu Yadav continued to hold sway for 15 years cashing in on with his imperishable Muslim and Yadav (fondly called MY) cards.
But it goes to the credit of Kumar that as a Janata Dal (United) leader, he maintained good harmonious working relations with ‘Hindu chauvinist’ BJP and kept his socialistic image intact.
His friendship with socialist giant George Fernandes paid dividends when both of them parted ways from Janata Dal and floated Samata Party.
Thus in the end he could muster support from all concerned to register a landslide victory in November 2005.
His poll managers had just aptly discovered a slogan ‘Naya (New) Bihar – Nitish Kumar’.
This also meant rejection of Jungle Raj.
Kumar had also successfully used the card that he was “wronged” by Lalu’s machinations.
The Lalu Yadav game and conspiracy with Buta Singh, the Governor, and other UPA leaders in early 2005 had deprived Nitish Kumar the chance of forming a government when he had "both mandate and the numbers".
But at the end of a fierce legal battle the Supreme Court ruling held Manmohan Singh’s government decision, ostensibly at the behest of Lalu Yadav, to impose President’s Rule and dissolve the assembly when Kumar had come near to forming a government was constitutionally wrong.
A man otherwise known for being sensitive about his image, unlike many of his compatriots from the state, the verdict really sought to give Kumar a clear mandate to salvage the state out of ruins into a “a New Bihar”.
Born on March 1, 1951, Bakhtiar, he was first elected to the Bihar assembly in 1985. In 1987 he became president of Yuva Lok Dal and in 1989 the secretary general of refurbished Janata Dal in 1989. He also won the parliamentary polls into the 9th Lok Sabha and became Union Minister of State for Agriculture under prime minister V P Singh.
But his subsequent rise have come pretty fast comparatively. In 1991, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha and became General Secretary of the Janata Dal at the national level and also the deputy leader of Janata Dal in Parliament. He represented Barh parliamentary constituency (Bihar) in the Lok Sabha between 1989 and 2004.
When the tussle of leadership surfaced in Janata Dal between ace socialist Goerge Fernandes and Sharad Yadav, Kumar backed Fernandes and together they floated Samata Party, which also joined BJP-led larger conglomeration NDA.
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