With “ sushasan aur vikas (good governance and development)” as its buzzwords, the RSS played a silent role in the NDA’s sweeping victory in the Bihar Assembly elections, especially in the Seemanchal region that has a sizable Muslim population, Sangh and BJP insiders said.

According to sources, at least 100 volunteers from the Sangh and affiliated organisations were deployed across each of Bihar’s 38 districts, while an estimated 5,000 activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the RSS’s student wing, were divided into tolis or groups of five each to work silently round the clock in Bihar during peak campaigning.

Contributing to an enhanced vote share for the alliance compared to 2020, when some of the NDA members such as the then-undivided Lok Janshakti Party (now t

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