OPINION | Bihar After The Storm: What The BJP Won And What Nitish Kumar Still Holds

NDA secured a thumping majority in the Bihar Assembly elections, winning 202 seats.

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Ashutosh Kumar Thakur Bihar Wakes To A New Map On 15th November 2025, Bihar woke to a new political reality. The results poured in like a slow-moving storm, reshaping the state’s political skyline by the hour. By the time this piece was being written, the NDA had secured 202 seats. Yet in Bihar, where politics is never simply arithmetic, a mandate is only the beginning. Interpretations, memories, counter currents, they arrive later, like an aftershock that refuses to settle. The