Bihar election results 2024 highlights: NDA retains Bihar; Nitish Kumar to attend NDA meeting in Delhi on Wednesday

The BJP-led NDA on Tuesday maintained an upper hand in Bihar, where it won three-fourths of the state’s 40 Lok Sabha seats, but also ceded some ground to the INDIA bloc.

The BJP and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) bagged 12 seats each, while five were won by Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and ex-CM Jitan Ram Manjhi, who heads Hindustani Awam Morcha, made parliamentary debut from Gaya.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP-led coalition had 39 out of the state’s 40 seats.

Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar will on Wednesday take part in the NDA meeting scheduled in the national capital, highly placed sources said here.

Kumar, whose party is set to grab 12 out of the state’s 40 seats, will be leaving for Delhi in the morning.

Kumar had visited Delhi during the weekend when he met top BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

With the BJP falling short of majority, Kumar is being seen as a key player whom the opposition INDIA bloc is also sending fillers.

Union minister Giriraj Singh of the BJP on Tuesday retained the Begusarai Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, albeit by a reduced margin of over 81,480 votes.

Singh had shifted to Begusarai in 2019, giving up his sitting seat of Nawada, and defeated former JNU students’ union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, the CPI candidate, by a staggering margin of over 4 lakh votes.

In this election, the Left party fielded former MLA Abdhesh Kumar Roy, who polled 5.67 lakh votes, as against 6.49 lakh secured by the BJP incumbent.

BJP MP Gopal Jee Thakur on Tuesday retained the Darbhanga Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, defeating his nearest RJD rival by a margin of over 1.78 lakh votes, the Election Commission said.

Mr. Thakur polled 5.67 lakh votes, as against 3.88 lakh by Lalit Yadav, a former state minister who was contesting on the RJD ticket.

As per EC trends, BJP and JD(U) are leading on 12 seats each, LJP on 5 seats. The Mahagathbandhan has been restricted to nine seats - RJD on four, Congress on two and CPI(ML) on two. Independent candidate Pappu Yadav is leading in Purnea

Amid speculations over Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)‘s next move in the wake of vote counting trends, senior party leader K C Tyagi on Tuesday said they are in the NDA and “we will be in the NDA”.

“It is our final decision,” Tyagi told PTIVideos here when asked about suggestions that the JD(U) may go back to the INDIA bloc.

As per ECI trends, HAM(S) chief Jitan Ram Manjhi has won the Gaya seat by a margin of 1,01,812 votes

The RJD on Tuesday afternoon claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Telugu Desam Party president Chandrababu Naidu “shared a dislike for vendetta politics” which could lead them away from the BJP-led NDA.

RJD national spokesperson Manoj Kumar Jha also recalled the forecast of Kumar, who heads the JD(U), that “those who came to power will be ousted in 2024”, and the efforts he made in laying the foundation of the INDIA bloc.

“We have been, formerly, in alliance with both Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu. We know they share a dislike for vendetta politics which the BJP stands for. Narendra Modi seems to be on his way out. We are hopeful that the two leaders will play a crucial role in the change of guard at the Centre,” Jha told reporters here.

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BJP candidates from Darbhanga and West Champaran Gopalji Thakur and Sanjay Jaiswal won poll from their respective seats by over 1 lakh votes. Mr. Thakur trounced RJD’s Lalit Yadav from Darbhanga seat while Mr. Jaiswal defeated Congress candidate Madan Mohan Tiwari on West Champaran seat. 

In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the lead/win margin is 2.5% or less in 64 seats. Of them, in 34 seats, the lead/win margin is at best 1%. This margin is the difference between the vote shares secured by the winner and the runner-up in a seat. 

In Bihar, Giriraj Singh leads by 0.3% margin in Begusarai, Mithilesh Tiwari leads by 0.6% in Buxar and RJD’s Alok Mehta in Ujiarpur by 0.8%

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The JD(U), headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, was winning in 15 out of 16 seats it had contested in Bihar. JD(U) State president Umesh Kushwaha said, “It is a referendum on Mr. Kumar’s work for development…. He is vikas purush of the state and people have voted for him”.

The BJP, which had contested 17 seats, was leading in 11, while junior ally Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) was ahead in all the five in its kitty, including Hajipur, where its president Chirag Paswan had established a lead of about 24,000 votes.

JDU maintains its 15-seat lead as BJP betters tally, picking up 13 seat-lead. RJD’s leads sinks to three seats, CPI(ML) to two and Congress to one seat.

JD(U) leads in 15 seats, BJP on 12 seats, LJP(RV) on 5 seats and HAM on one seat. For the INDIA alliance, RJD picks up 4 seats, CPI(ML) picks two and Congress one seat

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Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) chief Upendra Kushwaha is trailing from his Karakat seat by 9090 votes.

Nitish Kumar’s hold remains intact as JD(U) leads on 15 on 16 seats it contested. BJP leads on 12 seats, LJP(RV) on 5 seats. The INDIA bloc’s lead has been reduced to seven seats.

The NDA combine leads in 25 seats with JDU leading on 10 seats, BJP on nine, LJP(RV) on all five seats it contested. Congress and RJD lead on two seats each

On Karakat seat, RLM chief Upendra Kushwaha takes the lead over Independent candidate Pawan Singh and CPI (ML) candidate Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha. RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti is trailing BJP’s Ram Kripal Yadav( BJP) in the contest for Pataliputra. In Purnea, Independent candidate Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav is leading sittingJD(U) MP Santosh Kushwaha and Mahagathbandhan candidate Bima Bharti (RJD).

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