NDA Wins Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav's RJD Emerges As Single-Largest Party; Other Top Stories
Boosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rallies, the NDA eased past the majority mark of 122 in the 243-member Assembly. The BJP won 74 seats to emerge as the senior member in its alliance with Nitish Kumar's JDU, which won just 43.
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The Nitish Kumar-led NDA was set to return to power in Bihar, scraping past the majority mark with 124 seats in the state assembly, but with the BJP emerging as the senior partner in the alliance for the first time with 73seats, in a mandate that appeared to mark both continuity and change. Delhi recorded its sixth straight day of "severe" pollution on Tuesday, with a toxic mix of dust, smoke and fog pushing 18 of the city's 36 air quality sensors to their maximum reading of AQI 500 in what has turned into one of the worst air quality crises in recent years.
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The BJP-JD(U)'s National Democratic Allaince inched towards hitting the majority mark in the Bihar Assembly and forming the government though 34-yera-old Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal emerged as the single largest party on Tuesday. The BJP on Tuesday won byelections in 11 states, heading for victory in 40 of the 56 Assembly seats that went to the polls, with new BJP entrant Jyotiraditya Scindia ensuring the party remains in power in Madhya Pradesh.
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Plagued by "anti-incumbency" sentiment against incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the BJP strategised its election campaign heavily around star campaigner Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity, Deccan Chronicle reported. The BJP's M Raghunandan Rao stunned the fancied TRS at Dubbaka in a manner much suited for T20 cricket match, snatching the bypoll by a narrow margin in the last rounds of counting
