4 of 5 Bihar seats with max & min SIR deletions won by NDA

NEW DELHI: Though a push from women supporters on account of incentives, including a Rs 10,000 transfer in their bank accounts, was a big factor in NDA's landslide win in Bihar, the alliance wasn't the only beneficiary of high participation in the polls by women. AIMIM walked away with three of the five seats with the highest women voter turnout - namely Kochadhaman, Baisi and Amour - indicating that the correlation between women turnout and electoral outcome was not always straight. AIMIM's total tally was 5 seats. JDU, meanwhile, won in Thakurganj assembly constituency (AC) where 90% of the women turned up, while BJP was the victor in Pranpur, which saw 89% women turnout. The special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar, conducted amid resistance from the opposition led by Congr