The verdict is a sharp rap on the BJP’s knuckles, after the party had waffled about who would be the CM if the NDA won

xThe 202-seat victory for the National Democratic Alliance in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections is a gift of the people to Nitish Kumar, a mass leader in the old tradition of socialist principles, of whom he is the last survivor. It is as much a tribute as it is an endorsement of the man who helmed Bihar for 20 years and given him his tenth stint as chief minister, a position that is no longer a matter of cutting a deal with the BJP.

The verdict is a sharp rap on the BJP’s knuckles, after the party had waffled about who would be the CM if the NDA won. The masses exerted enough pressure before polling began on November 6 to make it necessary for the BJP to eat crow and an

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