Days after the Bihar Assembly elections, leaders from the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress – the two biggest Opposition parties in the state – began blaming each other for their sizeable defeat. Their Mahagathbandhan alliance managed to win only 35 of Bihar’s 243 seats, prompting some to suggest that it may no longer be viable for them to contest elections together in the future.
The election was swept by the National Democratic Alliance consisting of the Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
On the national stage, the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal are members of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance – and the Bihar result created ripples in this broad anti-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition too.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the INDIA bloc had played a key role in denying the BJP a simple majority. The BJP was able to return to power only with the support of its National Democratic Alliance partners.
The INDIA alliance has stayed together since then and even won elections in Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir.
But after Bihar, the media was rife with speculation that the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, an INDIA member, was going to switch sides and join hands with the BJP. The party, which successfully led the Opposition in last year’s...
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