As results started pouring out for the two-phase Bihar Assembly elections on Friday (November 14), the Opposition Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) spearheaded by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) was in for a shock of a lifetime.

The Raghopur seat in Vaishali district, known to be a family bastion for the party’s top brass, was witnessing a neck-and-neck fight between Tejashwi Yadav and Satish Kumar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with the former increasingly falling behind (the gap was over 4,500 at the time of writing this report). It was the same opponent that Tejashwi had defeated in Raghopur in the 2015 and 2020 elections.

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While the former deputy chief minister of Bihar, who is also the Opposition alliance’s chief ministerial face in this e

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