‘ECI one-sided, poll process suspicious, something is certainly wrong’: Congress on Bihar results

After being nearly wiped out in Bihar in the just-concluded Assembly Election, the Congress party on Saturday reviewed its performance and put the blame on the Election Commission for the drubbing.

Recording one of its worst-ever performances in Bihar, bagging just six seats in the 243-member Legislative Assembly, the Congress alleged “large-scale vote theft” and a “one-sided” election process contributed to the downfall of the Opposition.

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Under the Mahagathbandhan alliance, spearheaded by the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Congress contested on 61 seats and won six – a strike rate of just 10 per cent. This is one of the Congress’s worst-ever tallies in the state and leaves the once-dominant party on the periphery of Bihar’s political landscape.

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