New Delhi: In his first reaction to the Bihar election results, Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition (LOP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said that the outcome was “truly surprising”.
Thanking the voters who voted for the Mahagathbandhan, Rahul said that his party could not secure victory in an election “which was not fair from the beginning.”
“I express my heartfelt gratitude to the millions of voters in Bihar who placed their trust in the Mahagathbandhan. The result in Bihar is truly surprising. We could not secure victory in an election that was not fair from the very beginning,” Rahul said in a post on X.
This came after the Congress came in for a major drubbing in the Bihar Assembly elections, the results of which were announced on Friday. While the NDA secured 203 seats in the 243-member Assembly, the Congress won only 6 of the 61 it contested.
Rahul said that the real fight was to protect the Constitution and democracy, adding that the party and the opposition alliance will thoroughly review the outcome of the election.
“This is a fight to protect the Constitution and democracy. The Congress party and the INDI alliance will thoroughly review this outcome and make their efforts to safeguard democracy even more effective,” the Congress leader said.
The Congress has alleged that the Bihar election results reflected “vote chori on a gigantic scale” that was masterminded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah and the Election Commission.
Party president Mallikarjun Kharge said that while the party respects the decision of the people in Bihar, the Congress will continue to fight against those forces that are engaged in weakening democracy by misusing Constitutional institutions.
“We will conduct a thorough study of the election results and will present a detailed perspective after understanding the reasons for the outcomes. We are deeply grateful from the bottom of our hearts to those voters in Bihar who supported the ‘Mahagathbandhan’,” Kharge said in a post in Hindi on X.
