On Friday, the Congress and RJD-led Mahagathbandhan faced a devastating defeat in Bihar as the ruling NDA registered a landslide victory in the Bihar Assembly Election, winning more than 200 seats in the 243-member House, with the BJP emerging as the single-largest party.
Bihar Assembly Election Result 2025: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi met party chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday, a day after the party was decimated in the Bihar Assembly Election.
Congress top brass meets to review Bihar rout
According to sources, Congress top brass, including Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, AICC general secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal, party treasurer Ajay Maken and AICC Bihar in-charge Krishna Allavaru, huddled to review the party’s drubbing in the Bihar polls, and reiterated the “vote chori” (vote theft) against the Election Commission as the primary reason behind the drubbing, PTI reported.
Following the meeting, K C Venugopal, while talking to reporters, put the blame of Congress’ dismal show on the Election Commission, and alleged that the entire poll process is questionable and lacks transparency, adding that the party would soon analyse the poll result and come out with concrete proof in the next few weeks.
“This result that has come from Bihar is unbelievable for all of us. This is not only for Congress. The entire Bihar people are not believing it and also our alliance partners. We discussed with all of them; they are not believing it. Because, a 90 per cent plus strike rate for a political party – which has not happened in Indian history. We are doing a thorough analysis; we are collecting data from across Bihar. Within one or two weeks, we will come out with concrete proof,” he said.
Why Congress blamed EC?
Venugopal alleged the election process is “completely questionable” and EC is “totally one-sided”. “The Election Commission is totally one-sided. Whatever they are doing, there is no transparency at all, and therefore, this process is questionable. Anyway, we will collect all data from everywhere from entire Bihar and then present the facts,” the Congress leader said.
Asked about Rahul Gandhi’s comments about Bihar election being “not fair”, Venugopal said, “We have been talking about the Election Commission (role) and we talked about this during the Haryana elections – that the Haryana election is rigged”.
“We have come out with evidence and have the Election Commission question our evidence. On Bihar polls also, we will come with concrete proof,” he said.
‘Polls weren’t fair from beginning’
On Friday, the Congress and RJD-led Mahagathbandhan faced a devastating defeat in Bihar as the ruling NDA registered a landslide victory in the Bihar Assembly Election, winning more than 200 seats in the 243-member House, with the BJP emerging as the single-largest party.
In contrast, the opposition Mahagathbandhan led by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress, faced a rout in the state, winning just 33 of the 243 seats it had contested, with Congress securing a dismal 6 seats out of the 61 it fought.
After the crushing loss, Rahul Gandhi claimed that the elections in the state were “not fair from the very beginning” which made it difficult for the opposition alliance to win the assembly polls in the state, adding that the Congress and the INDIA bloc would conduct an in-depth review of the results.
The Congress had also claimed that the election results in Bihar without doubt reflect “vote chori on a gigantic scale – masterminded by the PM, the HM, and the Election Commission”.
Meanwhile, on Saturday. Rahul Gandhi, whose poll campaign against the BJP had revolved around his “Vote Chori”(vote theft) allegations, did not speak to the media persons after the meeting, as the leaders of the Mahagathbandhan, of which the Congress is a part, remained in a state of disbelief after the NDA swept the polls.
(With PTI inputs)
