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COVER STORY NOVEMBER 21, 2025 | The Indian Eye 4

BIHAR ELECTIONS WIN

MODI’S BIG

MOMENT

The NDA’s emphatic Bihar victory was not an accident but a calibrated political,
social, and strategic project—one that strengthens PM Modi’s national grip and

sets the stage for a push into West Bengal

OUR BUREAU
Patna / New Delhi
he NDA’s landslide in Bihar
was not just another elec-
Ttoral win. It was a political
statement, a strategic renewal, and
a demonstration of how Narendra
Modi’s electoral machine continues
to reinvent itself with each new bat-
tle. With 202 of 243 seats, the NDA
demolished the Mahagathbandhan,
revived the BJP–JD(U) partnership,
delivered a historic turnout led by
women and youth, and exposed glar-
ing vulnerabilities in the opposition. It
also signaled something larger: Bihar
was not an endpoint but a launchpad.
Modi made that clear the moment he
declared that the “Ganga that flows
from Bihar will now carry the BJP to
victory in Bengal.”
This was an election fought on
development, women’s empower-
ment, law-and-order memories, youth
aspirations — and an opposition alli-
ance that collapsed under its own
contradictions. It was also an election
where Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrates victory with BJP supporters after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) wins the Bihar Assembly
once again proved a crucial disrup-
tor, splitting the Muslim-Yadav vote election 2025, in New Delhi on Friday (ANI Photo/Amit)
in Seemanchal and accelerating the
Mahagathbandhan’s slide. In every unmatched in Bihar’s political history, for “genuine social justice,” replacing its Bengal ambition.
direction, the NDA found tailwinds. found new momentum with Modi be- what he called decades of “appease- Women voters outnumbered
And in every constituency where the hind him. The Prime Minister’s back- ment politics” with a model of “san- men by nearly nine percentage points
opposition looked for consolidation, ing reframed Nitish not as a fatigued tushtikaran” — universal satisfaction — a political earthquake by itself.
it found fragmentation. administrator but as a partner in a long- rooted in delivery, not identity. He Nitish Kumar’s long investment in
The Modi-Nitish partnership, term development project — a “gold- invoked the “new positive MY” — women-focused schemes (cycles,
shaky a year ago, re-emerged as a en 25-year journey,” as Modi put it. Mahila and Youth — as the force that scholarships, reservations) converged
tightly coordinated machine. BJP Modi’s victory speech, delivered “destroyed the old communal MY perfectly with Modi’s national narra-
leaders who once speculated about with a mix of triumph, symbolism, formula” of Muslims and Yadavs. This tive of welfare and safety. The NDA
the JD(U)’s relevance now described and clear political messaging, told rhetorical reframing was not acciden- positioned itself as the guarantor of
Nitish Kumar as indispensable. Nit- the story of Nepal’s shift more clear- tal; it was central to the BJP’s Bihar stability after the fear-filled “Jungle
ish, whose social engineering remains ly. He framed the result as a mandate strategy and will be equally central to Continued on next page... >>

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