Bihar elections 2025 results: It can often be difficult for a four-term government to return to power, let alone with a two-thirds majority. But that’s exactly what the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) achieved under the leadership of Nitish Kumar in Bihar on Friday (November 14). Nitish’s Janata Dal (United) and the BJP headlined an alliance that seemed on course to win 202 of the Bihar Legislative Assembly’s 243 seats as of Friday evening.

In a way, the NDA has almost repeated its 2010 performance, when the BJP -JDU combine won 206 seats, and the Lalu Prasad-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) was reduced to 22 seats. And yet, it holds greater significance.

The 2010 mandate was for a wave of governance reforms, from law and order to road infrastructure, that Nitish had ushered in B

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