Bihar Elections: Amit Shah dials Nitish Kumar to congratulate as NDA leads in 123 seats

With NDA cruising towards victory in Bihar Assembly Elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah dialed incumbent CM Nitish Kumar to congratulate him. As per latest trends, NDA alliance comprising of BJP, HAM, and JD(U) is leing on 123 seats while Mahagathbandhan les on 110 seats in 243-seated assembly. Election Commission has informed that counting is expected to go on till 'late evening'. 

With NDA breaching majority mark, celebrations have alrey begun across Bihar. BJP supporters have started garing in numbers outside party's hequarters in Delhi. As per Election Commission, NDA has won five seats and Mahagathbandhan has won three seats.

'Absolutely glitch-free counting process so far'

dressing a press conference at 2 PM earlier today, Election Commission h informed that counting process of votes for Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 has been "absolutely glitch-free" so far. It informed that slightly more than 1 crore votes have been counted in Bihar so far out of 4.10 crores votes which were cast during three-phase election and counting process will continue till late Tuesday evening. 

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"Needless to say that re has been an absolutely glitch-free counting process so far. From what we have been able to gauge so far, slightly more than 1 crore votes have been counted in Bihar which means that re is significant ground to be covered yet. I think that re are issues which have come to our tice from any quarters," an Election Commission of India officer said in a news conference. 

Deputy Election Commissioner Sudeep Jain also clarified again that EVMs are 'robust and tamper-proof' and 'Supreme Court upheld integrity of EVMs more than once'. Election Commission h also offered an EVM challenge in 2017. integrity of EVMs is without any doubt and merits furr clarification," he said.

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