Results in Bihar polls unbelievable, will examine data: Congress

The Congress on Saturday termed the Bihar assembly election results "unbelievable" and said that the party would collect and analyse the data to see what had transpired, even as it slammed the Election Commission for being partisan.

The party may form a panel for the task.

A small group of leaders held the Congress' initial stocktaking of defeat at party president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence. Gandhi attended the meeting, even as the All India Congress Committee (AICC) did not comment on why he was missing when the results came in on Friday or where he had gone.


Gandhi and Kharge reportedly spoke to RJD leaders Lalu Prasad and Tejashwi Yadav on the phone, and the latter shared Congress apprehensions about the poll outcome. A meeting of allies over their common grouse is being explored.

"The result which has come from Bihar is unbelievable for all of us... Our alliance parties do not believe it... We are collecting data and conducting a thorough analysis, and within one to two weeks, we will provide concrete proof... The Election Commission is totally one-sided. This (poll) process is questionable," KC Venugopal, AICC general secretary in charge of organisation, told media persons after the meeting.

Ajay Maken said, "There was never a strike rate (NDA margin) like this. Even Congress didn't have a strike rate like this in 1984. We have spoken with our alliance partners. All of them believe that these are unexpected results and these should be examined, data should be analysed." AICC in-charge of Bihar Krishna Allavaru also attended the meeting.