Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the Bihar Assembly election “was not fair from the very beginning”.

The remark by Gandhi on social media came hours after the Opposition bloc lost the polls to the ruling National Democratic Alliance.

The Mahagathbandhan won 35 of the 243 seats. Of these, 25 were won by the Congress’ ally Rashtriya Janata Dal. The Congress won six of the 61 seats it contested, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation clinched two.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won 89 seats and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) won 85, almost doubling its tally from the 2020 polls. Their ally Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) won 19.

A party or an alliance needs 122 seats in the 243-member Assembly to form the government.

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