The one unmistakable pattern emerging as counting trends firm up on the Election Commission's dashboard is that the new M-Y axis of Mahila (women) and Yuva (youth) appears to have delivered the Bihar Assembly election to the Nitish Kumar–led NDA, reshaping the state's electoral map and decimating all hopes of a Mahagathbandhan resurgence.

As per the trends and results made available by the EC at the time of filing this report, the NDA was ahead in 204 seats (BJP-91, JDU-83, LJP-21, HAM-5 and RLM-4). The Mahagathbandhan, on the other hand, trailed far behind at 33 seats (RJD-25, Congress-4 and Left-4).

For months, the RJD, the primary constituent of the Opposition alliance had banked on the traditional 'MY' (Muslim–Yadav) consolidation to maintain its heft in the region as well as the nat

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