New Delhi: Battered by the rout in Bihar, the Opposition is blaming ‘vote chori’ but the root of the debacle may lie in an incoherent campaign, discord within the I.N.D.I.A. bloc, one-upmanship by the RJD and moreover an inability to design a narrative against Nitish Kumar and a credible alternative to him.

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At the national level, the Bihar results will further trouble the I.N.D.I.A. bloc in its fight as it will be fragmented with the Congress, Left and Trinamool Congress all set to contest against each other in Kerala and West Bengal. Any joint action will have to wait at least till May next year.

The opposition partners can find solace in their Bihar vote share not deviating violently like the number of seats its opponents g

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