Patna: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) stunned all the pollsters and scored a landslide victory in Bihar wresting 204 seats out of the 243 constituencies. This four-fifths majority is close to the 2010 Assembly election result when the NDA had won 206 seats, a record which remains unbroken ever since the State was bifurcated in 2000.

This was also Nitish Kumar’s fifth consecutive win as head of the Government in the State, yet another record of sorts for the man who has been at the helm of affairs since November 2005, barring a nine-month hiatus when Jitan Ram Manjhi was CM for a short span.

Proving all political pundits wrong, the Nitish-led NDA sprung a massive surprise on Friday when the JD (U) won 84 seats out of 101 it contested, almost double it won in 2020. However, the BJP

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