Bihar Election Results 2020: Nitish Kumar re-elected as the CM, Tejashwi Yadav’s dreams down the drain

Bihar Election Result’ 2020  have been declared. The NDA government is going to be formed in Bihar once again. Nitish Kumar will be the Chief Minister of the state. The NDA has won a total of 125 seats, while the Grand Alliance has won 110 seats.

The Bihar election were  held  in 3 levels over a length of eleven days. Voting for the primary section took place on October 28 and covered seventy one meeting constituencies . The 0.33 section of balloting was held on November 7 and covered 78 seats.

The overall result was as follows:

JDU with 43 seats

BJP with 74 seats

LJP with 1 seats

RJD with 75 seats

Others with 50 seats

What were the main party alliances in the Elections?

At present, two major alliances are in the race for power in Bihar.

National Democratic Alliance (NDA)

CM face of the alliance: Nitish Kumar (JDU)

On one side is the ruling integrate of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which incorporates Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United (one hundred fifteen seats), the Bharatiya Janata Party (hundred and ten seats), new entrant to the alliance Vikassheel Insaan Party (eleven seats) and Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha (7 seats).   Lok Janshakti Party, fashioned via way of means of past due Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan changed into additionally part of the NDA.

However these days introduced it'll be going solo, mentioning variations with the JDU. Current LJP chief Chirag Paswan has stated that the LJP will shape a central authority with the BJP withinside the state.

 Mahagatbandhan

CM face of the alliance: Tejashwi Yadav (RJD)

On the opposite hand, is the opposition's Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) which specifically accommodates of Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal (a hundred and forty-four seats) and the Congress (70 seats). Other allies consist of the CPI-ML (19 seats), CPI (6 seats) and the CPIM (four seats). The alliance turned into fashioned all through the 2015 Bihar election and additionally contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election together. However, it misplaced numerous minor allies along with the VIP, HAM and JMM over the direction of the beyond year.

Other significant alliances in the 2020 Bihar election were:

Grand Democratic Secular Front (GDSF)

CM face of the alliance: Upendra Kushwaha (RLSP)

Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM joined palms with Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samta Party to shape the Grand Democratic Secular Front. Other participants encompass Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party, former RJD MP Devendra Prasad Yadav’s Samajwadi Janata Dal (Democratic), former UP minister Om Prakash Rajbhar's Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party and the Janvadi Party Socialist. Prakash Ambedkar's Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi is likewise supposed to be part of this alliance

Progressive Democratic Front (PDF)

CM face of the alliance: Pappu Yadav

Madhepura MP Pappu Yadav's Jan Adhikar Party and Chandrashekhar Azad's Azad Samaj Party have additionally fashioned an alliance to contest the 2020 Bihar election. They are being supported via way of means of the Social Democratic Party of India and the Bahujan Mukti Party.

United Democratic Alliance

Calling itself the anti-NDA the front, the UDA includes the front of 15 events together led through the previous Bharatiya Janata Party cupboard minister Yashwant Sinha and different transiently famous mass leaders. Some contributors of the alliance encompass former World Bank director Gulrej Hoda's Jan Sangharsh Dal Bhartiya Sablog Party, Janata Dal Rashtrawadi, Vanchit Samaj Party, Janata Party and LJP (Secular). Senior leaders like former MPs Arun Kumar, Ranjan Yadav, former ministers Nagmani, Renu Kushwaha except Satyendra Sharma are related to the UDA. The UDA has stated its far in talks with the GDSF and the PDF to shape a bigger 0.33 the front that may show a sizable vote cutter for others.

The last assembly election was held in the state in 2015. Throughout the 2015 Bihar assembly election, the Mahagathbandhan that brought JDU, RJD and therefore the Congress along,  won with a majority of 178 seats. The NDA headed by the BJP managed to secure fifty eight seats.

Bihar is the first state where even after the Covid pandemic, a major election has taken place . 

The Election committee has issued guidelines and created arrangements  for campaigning, nominations, polling and investigation of votes to keep Covid-19 cases from spiralling in the state that has 7.29 Crore registered voters.

•On October 9, the Election Commission doubled the broadcast and telecast time, assigned to political parties in Bihar, on Doordarshan and every one India Radio to cut back physical candidacy and avoid Covid-19 risks.

•The committee had additionally reduced the number of star campaigners for recognised parties from forty to thirty in sight of the Covid-19 pandemic.

•Paramedics conducted thermal scanning of voters at polling booths.

•To cope with an expected slower tempo of proceedings, the timings for polling were prolonged by an hour. While commonly the timings for casting vote is between 7am to 5pm , this time it would be from 7am-6pm except for booths in the LWE.

•Both physical and digital campaigning was carried out.

•EC had delivered down the most quantity of electorate allowed to solid votes in a polling station from 1500 to one thousand so as to keep away from crowd and lengthy queues and to make it simpler to hold social distancing norms required to restriction unfold of coronavirus.