Radical Socialist Statement on Bihar Election Results | Nov 18, 2025

What was expected to be a very close-fought election turned out to be a massive victory for the NDA in Bihar. To what extent did the 65 lakhs deletions from the voters list and other additions to it of those coming of voting age or who were otherwise being included, affect the final results? Was the ECI complicit in this, thereby expressing its bias towards the BJP-led Central government and to the NDA in Bihar? There have been sound reasons for suspecting such a bias, which, if true, gravely undermines a central pillar of even bourgeois democracy, namely the integrity of the electoral process itself. In the recent past, Rahul Gandhi of the Congress provided evidence-based public exposures of deficiencies and manipulations of the electoral rolls in previous elections in Maharashtra, Karnataka and then in Haryana. This clearly required that the ECI make itself publicly accountable to explaining these discrepancies and otherwise investigate to identify the circumstances in which such frauds took place. As an independent body, it is the ECI