Senior Congress leaders admitted confusion over seat distribution and ineffective mobilisation, noting Rahul’s EBC outreach and voter yatra failed to resonate.

In the 26 assembly elections in North India since Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in May 2014, the Opposition has won 12. The Bihar assembly election—the 27th in North India-- is not just another feather in the NDA’s cap, but a low-point for an opposition that managed just 35 seats in the 243-member assembly.

Out of the 12 victories for the BJP’s rivals, the Congress accounts for five (on its own), underlining the woeful state of the party that once governed vast swathes of North India in the pre-Mandal era.In the 2025 Bihar election, the party won six of the 61 seats it contested—for an abysmal 9.8% strike rate. The leade

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