The Bihar Mahagathbandhan, which put up a stiff fight against the NDA for Scheduled Caste-reserved seats in the 2020 Assembly polls, has seen its tally crumble to a single digit this time.

Bihar has 40 reserved seats: 38 for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and 2 for Scheduled Tribes (STs). The ruling NDA government won 34 SC seats and one ST seat. The Opposition Mahagathbandhan managed just four SC seats and one ST seat.

In the 2020 Assembly elections, the NDA had won 21 SC seats against the Mahagathbandhan’s 17. That year, the then undivided Lok Janshakti Party, which counts the Dalit Paswan community as its core base, had contested independently and dented the prospects of the JD(U) and RJD in reserved seats without winning any itself.

The outcomes in the state’s two ST seats remain unchanged

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