New Delhi : Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge convened a closed-door meeting at his residence on Saturday, the party’s first huddle since its bruising defeat in the Bihar Assembly election. The huddle came a day after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) steamrolled the Mahagathbandhan, tightening its grip on Bihar and delivering a heavy blow to the Congress-RJD alliance.
The BJP surged to 89 seats, up from 74 in 2020, while Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) jumped to 85 from 43. The RJD collapsed to 25 from 75, and the Congress slid to just six seats out of the 61 it contested, down from 19. Soon after results were declared on November 14, the Congress alleged “vote chori on a gigantic scale”, with Rahul Gandhi insisting the contest was unfair from the outset. In a post on X, he said the party and the INDIA bloc would conduct a detailed review of the drubbing and “make more effective efforts to save democracy”.
I express my heartfelt gratitude to those millions of voters in Bihar who expressed their trust in the Mahagathbandhan. This result in Bihar is truly surprising. We could not achieve victory in such an election that was not fair from the very beginning, Gandhi said in a post on X. We will conduct a thorough study of the election results and will present a detailed perspective after understanding the reasons for the outcomes.
We are deeply grateful from the bottom of our hearts to those voters in Bihar who supported the ‘mahagathbandhan’, Kharge said. We will leave no stone unturned in raising awareness among the people. We will continue the struggle to save the Constitution and democracy by staying among the people, he added.
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