A Bow to Good Governance, A Slap to Fake Narratives

 

        The results of the Bihar Assembly elections are significant in many ways. In this election, the voters have given a big bow to the development schemes and good governance of the Modi government at the center and the NDA government in Bihar, while thoroughly rejecting the Congress’s malpractices like vote theft propaganda. The Bihar election has once again shown that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma still exists.

        This bow from Bihar’s voters should be humbly accepted by the Congress and all opponents. However, some groups like Sanjay Raut have evaded accepting reality by targeting the Election Commission. During this election, issues related to a state like Bihar, which has been in the news for various reasons, and other development issues there got discussed. The Modi government has started many infrastructure development schemes in Bihar in the last 11 years. With the support of these schemes and the schemes of the Nitish Kumar government, the people of Bihar have started getting their fruits in tangible form. The voters have acknowledged this by voting overwhelmingly for the National Democratic Alliance in the assembly elections.

        In Bihar, which was once mocked as a BIMARU state, many development projects have been realized in the last 11 years. That is why investment MoUs worth Rs 1.81 lakh crore have been signed in Bihar. The conclusion that emerges from this is that investors from home and abroad have started finding Bihar a state suitable for investment.

        According to the latest report by the Confederation of Indian Industry, Bihar’s economy is estimated to be worth around $219 billion by 2030-2031. The report also estimates that Bihar’s economy will grow to $1.10 trillion by 2046-2047. Railways, airport, electricity and other projects worth about 40 thousand crore rupees for Bihar were recently inaugurated and foundation stones were laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The terminal building of Purnia Airport in Bihar was constructed in less than 5 months. Due to this new airport, Purnia and Seemanchal will have direct connectivity with major cities and commercial centers in the country. The Modi government has started construction of many national highways in Bihar. Along with this, the doubling of several railway lines will further speed up the communication facilities in Bihar.

        The central government has announced the establishment of a Makhana Board for makhana producing farmers of Bihar in the 2025-2026 budget.

        Besides that, the central government has emphasized on setting up food processing institutions in Bihar as well as increasing the production of crops like tur, urad, masoor in the state. There are lakhs of beneficiaries in Bihar of various schemes by the Modi government like the PM Awas Yojana and Ujjwala Yojana. The general public has immense faith in the Modi government as the government is depositing government grants and financial assistance directly into the bank accounts of the beneficiaries. This faith is reflected in the results of the assembly elections. Lalu Prasad was in power in Bihar for 15 consecutive years from 1990 to 2005. During this period, the people of Bihar experienced jungle raj. During that period, there was no constitution and rule of law in Bihar, but the dictatorship of the Yadav family.

        The people of Bihar have not yet forgotten the hooliganism that was nurtured under the auspices of the Yadav family during that period. The alliance government of Nitish Kumar and the BJP decisively broke the hooliganism of the Yadav family. The common people are experiencing the difference between the terrorism during Lalu Prasad’s jungle raj and the determination and campaign to bring this hooliganism to an end during the NDA government. Therefore, common voters have generously showered votes on BJP and Nitish Kumar in this election. No one will claim that all problems in Bihar are over. However, instead of taking up the issues of common people and fighting on them, the opponents relied on fake narratives like vote theft, and the opponents have suffered the blow of that.

        Before this election, Congress’s crown prince Rahul Gandhi had taken out a march opposing the Election Commission’s voter list intensive verification campaign. In this march which toured the entire Bihar, Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Tejashwi Yadav had participated with full force. Before this march, Rahul Gandhi had held a press conference in New Delhi and alleged that the names of voters against the BJP were being systematically excluded in the voter list verification program in Bihar. While presenting at this press conference, Rahul Gandhi had made some of the voters whose names were excluded stand before the journalists. An appeal was filed in the Supreme Court against the Election Commission’s voter list correction program.

        The Supreme Court, understanding the Election Commission’s side, rejected the objections to this program, but Rahul Gandhi continued harping on the voter list. It is expected that the opponents will learn a lesson from Bihar’s results. Attempts to constantly create confusion in people’s minds do not succeed. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Congress benefited from the propaganda of constitutional amendment. If the opponents take help of such propaganda instead of going to the people and doing actual work among the people, the voters will reject the opponents, this is what the message of Bihar’s results is.

 

(Article Pre-Published in Times of India Online – 17 November, 2025) 

Keshav Upadhye, Chief Spokesperson