- By Aditya Jha
- Mon, 13 Oct 2025 03:18 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Bihar Election 2025: With just a few weeks remaining in the much-hyped Bihar Assembly election, both the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Mahagathbandhan have almost concluded the seat-sharing talks and other strategies. While the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led NDA will contest to repeat the government by countering the anti-incumbency, the Mahagathbandhan will try to form a government in the state after a decade. However, the entry of poll strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraj has also spiced up the politics.
Apart from this, a possible alliance between the smaller parties, including Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM, RJD's ousted leader and son of former Chief Minister Lalu Yadav Tej Pratap's Janshakti Janta Dal (JJD), and Aazad Samaj Party (ASP), is also likely to have an impact. The alliance is most likely to have an impact on the core voters of the opposition alliance, as AIMIM managed to win five Muslim-dominated seats in the last assembly election.
Apart from this, Tej Pratap is also expected to marginally divide the 'Yadav' vote base of the RJD, leading to a dent in the RJD's traditional M-Y (Muslim-Yadav) vote base. Earlier last week, Asaduddin Owaisi announced that apart from the Seemanchal region, the AIMIM will also contest four seats of the Mithilanchal region. He further slammed Tejashwi Yadav for not accepting his offer to include AIMIM in Mahagathbandhan, adding that the RJD leader's arrogance will harm the election.
These factors are likely to play a key role in the election, as the previous few assembly polls have been decided by less than 10 per cent votes. The last assembly election of 2020 witnessed a close contest, as the difference in the vote share between the winning NDA and Mahagathbandhan was only 0.3 per cent. While the CM Nitish Kumar-led NDA managed to get 37.26 per cent vote, the opposition could manage to get 37.23 per cent. There were 52 seats where the margin of victory was less than 5,000 votes.