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BNDA staved off a strong election officials were delaying Since the BJP with 74 seats of the seats won by the two majority in the The LJP, whose walking out challenge from RJD-led Grand handling certificates to winning was miles ahead of the JD(U) allies. Assembly. of the NDA in Bihar just ahead . $ $ Alliance to emerge ahead in the candidates from at least 10 in the seat tally, it will be seen BJP Bihar chief Sanjay LJP leader Chirag Paswan of the polls had sparked spec- ! " #$ $ battle of Bihar on Tuesday, but seats. The party blamed Chief doing a favour to Kumar by not Jaiswal once again repeated may have inflicted substantial ulation that Chirag was set on the nature of the outcome has Minister Nitish Kumar and claiming the top post for a saf- that Kumar will be the Chief damage on Kumar, but the to downsize Kumar, was down !%&'" considerably weakened the Deputy Chief Minister Sushil fron leader. Minister. “The issue has been CM’s success in retaining his in the dumps. '.) /0 12 32 position of Chief Minister Kumar Modi of conspiring to Home Minister Amit Shah cleared by Prime Minister core vote back — women and Kumar has reason to be . 4* 5 22 10 62 Nitish Kumar. put pressure on district and dialled Kumar and reportedly Narendra Modi and party chief extremely backward castes — relieved. He was pitted against % 7 485 6 0 6 The RJD emerged as the polling officials to favour the discussed the poll results and JP Nadda much before the saved the day for him 15-year of anti-incumbency 9 &) 6 0 6 singles largest party winning 75 NDA candidates in closely- trends. Shah and BJP president elections,” he said, while even though his that only got further hyped by seats, BJP won 74, the JD(U) the plight of nearly 25 lakh !%%(" 43, Congress 19, and the migrants workers CPI(M-L) 13. Results of three returning home after : . /6 1; 3/ other seats were awaited. undergoing heart- + 1/ 2 1< The NDA barely crossed rending suffering. The +)& ; 0 ; the halfway mark, winning accompanying economic +)&47 5 ; 0 ; 124 seats and leading on 1. The distress caused by the +)&47 >$ 54$ 5 < 2 1; Grand Alliance could bag 110 Covid-lockdown compounded seats. The Election his woes, and Chirag was $ Commission had yet not offi- already out to sabotage his cially announced these results prospects, come what may. &7? >">& 61@ till midnight. The optics could not have 7 The Congress below-par been worse. The crowd jeered '?8?) 1 0 1 performance and AIMIM and heckled him at places and & 1 0 1 stunning show in the Muslim- also threw slippers and onions $ . ) 1 0 1 dominated Seemanchal region at him. His critics wrote his $ %)* +, &+- sealed the Mahagathbhandan political obituary and Chirag fate. Owaisi won five seats and spoiled the Grand Alliances chances on at least 10 more ()% seats. The NDA’s better than expected performance in the Muslim-Yadav dominated Seemanchal clearly hints at *R#,%'% polarisation of voters on reli- gious line. On the other hand, the ,'2 && Congress won just 19 out of the !"#"$%&-)! 70 seats it contested. The # Congress strike rate was worst he Congress continued to among all the major parties in Tplay a spoilsport for its the fray. alliance partners. This time the With result trickling in % ! " P "!!! ./ 0 ! & &' party marred the prospect of the RJD-led Grand Alliance’s bid to oust Nitish Kumar-led NDA Government in Bihar. !"# # $" '- .'%(( Its strike rate of around 27 per cent turned out to be the lowest among all the parties in fray. The strike rate of even %& ' .0 )%1 small regional parties, like Vikassheel Insan Party (VIP) of Mukesh Sahni, which is part R ( )*) R of the NDA is 50 per cent, almost double of Congress. !"#$ +,' ,-. Despite of raking up the core issues like unemploy- %%'%! ### ment and price rise, the grand old party whose campaign $*+,!(# '%()$ was led by former party chief Rahul Gandhi, the Congress iwali seems to have arrived a few he BJP won 20 of the 28 seats in the emerged as the “villain” for Ddays early for the Bharatiya Janata Tby-elections in Madhya Pradesh, Tejashwi Yadav. In the last Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh and other giving it enough numbers to achieve Assembly elections, the States where the votes for the bypolls majority in the Assembly and provide Congress contested 42 seats as and State Assembly elections were stability to the Shivraj Singh Chouhan part of Grand Alliance con- * ! & + P counted on Tuesday with the saffron Government in the State. sisting of the RJD and the "! ! & &' party sailing through. The Congress got some consolation JD(U) and won 25 seats. The BJP drubbed the divided ! " P by bagging 8 seats. The BSP could not On most of the seats the The RJD in its initial after another is discarding it. Opposition in Uttar Pradesh by winning $ %& &' win any seat. It fought on 2 seats. Congress contested against round of discussion had In Tamil Nadu, the DMK 6 seats of the total 7, while Samajwadi In the 230-member Assembly, the % ! " P the BJP, the former trailed. agreed to give the Congress a blamed the poor strike rate of Party managed to retain one The Congress and the BSP had BJP tally has increased to 127 (well "!"( ! Rahul Gandhi had cam- maximum of 48 seats only but the Congress for its perfor- seat. fielded candidates in all seven seats and above simple majority mark of 116) with ) !& &' paigned extensively in Bihar, the grand old party forced to mance as it won only eight BJP candidates won the they drew blank. However, the the addition of these 20 seats. Prominent but lack of party organisation increase the number and the seats out of 41 it contested in Bulandshahr, Tundla, Ghatampur, minor consolation for the Congress was BJP Minister Prabhuram Choudhary Reacting to the results, Chief and reports of irregularities in seat sharing was adjusted only 2016 Assembly elections. Deoria, Naugawan Sadat and in Bangarmau where its candidate fin- won the bypolls from Sanchi with a Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said ticket distribution seemed to after the intervention of RJD Similarly, in the Uttar Bangarmau seats with a bigger margin ished second. margin of 63,809 votes. the outcome proves voters supported have queered the pitch for it. patriarch Lalu Prasad. Pradesh election in 2017, the compared to the 2017 Assembly elec- the decision taken by Congress MLAs Initially the Congress was In the 2019 Lok Sabha Congress won only seven seats tions while the SP won the Malhani seat to pull down the previous Kamal Nath attempting to armtwist the polls, the RJD-Congress part- out of 105 it contested. In in Jaunpur district. dispensation. RJD to contest on more seats nership too flopped when the almost every State, whenever Four cornered contest in the bypolls ,#/ & “It has been proved today that but Tejashwi limited the NDA swept the polls, winning a regional party allies with benefited the ruling BJP as all the three public has supported the decision taken Congress to 70 seats and the 39 of 40 seats, and the Congress, the chances of its Opposition parties — SP, BSP and !" &* by our MLA colleagues under the lead- RJD took 144. Political ana- Congress secured one Lok victory gets further reduced, Congress candidates polled sizeable ership of Scindia (BJPs Rajya Sabha lysts said if Tejashwi had not Sabha seat while RJD’s tally given the poor strike rate of number of votes thus paving the victo- Ahmedabad: The ruling BJP in Gujarat has already won Abdasa seat. In a tight member Jyotiraditya Scindia) to pull given in to the Congress remained zero. the party. In States like UP, ry of the ruling saffron party. With this on Tuesday won by-elections to Morbi contest in Morbi seat, BJP’s Brijesh down the (Nath) Government,” demand, the Opposition In the Modi era, the Bihar, Jharkhand, Tamil win, the total strength of the BJP in the and Karjan Assembly seats by defeating Merja emerged victorious against his Chouhan told party workers in his alliance may have been in a Congress has now become a Nadu, the grand old has to 403-seated UP Assembly has gone to contestants of the opposition Congress, nearest Congress rival Jayantilal Patel by address as bypoll results poured better position by dint of the liability on the alliance part- take a piggy ride on the 310. Now, the SP’s strength is 49. the Election Commission said. The BJP a margin of 4,649 votes. in. RJD’s performance. ners and slowly one party regional players. -%#R(#% &# "0 1 # P *'& O P ruthless Mumbai Indians ) 3 ) , Awon an unprecedented fifth Indian Premier League title as Delhi Capitals, for all #( cross-border terrorism in their efforts and ambitions, L M India.