NDA's Bihar encore: Task cut out for RJD; Cong stares at existential crisis

Congress posted one of its weakest-ever results in Bihar, prompting PM Modi to forecast a split, while RJD too failed to widen its caste coalition despite a strong vote share and young-voter outreach

On Friday morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on social media his tributes to India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary, and by evening predicted that the Congress is headed for a split.

 

In the 2025 Bihar Assembly polls, the Congress won six seats of the 61 it contested in alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and others, with an 8.73 per cent vote share — its second-worst performance in the state since 1951. In the 2010 Bihar Assembly polls, the Congress fielded candidates on all 243 seats, winning