Day 523

 Well, the result of the Bihar assembly election 2025 is out now. Honestly speaking, this result came with a little shock and surprise for me. I was sure that again NDA government under Nitish Kumar is going to be formed again. But I never expected that the main opposition party, RJD, will suffer this much. Honestly speaking, when I saw Tejashwi Yadav along with Rahul Gandhi in Vote Yatra, then I thought that this time RJD will lose. Actually, during the last assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav did the rallies together and BJP won the assembly election in Uttar Pradesh.

 

Well, there are many factors due to which this time NDA got clear majority. In the last five years, although Nitish Kumar was switching from NDA to RJD and RJD to NDA, but his government gave new appointments. The social schemes of Nitish government also played a crucial role in voting. Nitish government started many schemes for the betterment of the women in the state. I think this is the reason for better percentage of female voters as compared to percentage of male voters. I was surprised to know from the news papers that even migrants from Bihar came for voting and now they are returning to their work places. This shows that the increasing awareness amongst the voters.

 

As, we all know that the result is out and now Nitish Kumar is again going be the next Chief Minister. But as usual the blame game on Election Commission by the RJD and its supporters hasn’t stopped. Actually, this has become a trend now. Winning alliance will praise Election Commission and loosing alliance will blame Election Commission. I think that instead of blaming Election Commission the losing alliance across India should reconsider their lack of policies which forced voters to stay away from them. Blaming the Election Commission is just like ignoring own duties and blaming others. So, it will be better to strengthening owns weak points. This suggestion is for every political parties and every political alliances.

In my view, the internal conflict of Lalu family became one of the major factors of the defeat of RJD in this election. The conflict between family and the party, the allegations of Tejashwi Yadav being arrogant, and few other factors turned against RJD. In this election, the Muslim-Yadav (MY) formula of RJD didn’t work out for the party because RJD was heavily dependent on Muslim-Yadav vote bank. But Nitish Kumar converted it into Mahila-Youth (MY) vote bank for his alliance. The way in which his government launched schemes for women and youth in Bihar made him a strong choice again for the Chief Minister for the fifth time.