The results of the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections have once again exposed a fundamental truth about the Congress–RJD ecosystem: when they lose, they don’t introspect — they manufacture conspiracy theories. Their latest excuse is not just desperate, it is mathematically absurd. According to their melodramatic script, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise “deleted 65 lakh voters” — all, by some miracle, exclusively from their own support base.
This claim would have been laughable if it wasn’t being peddled so seriously.
The Numbers Completely Busts The 65-Lakh Deletion Myth
Let’s examine the official vote counts from 2020 and 2025 — numbers that don’t bend for convenient propaganda:
2025 Bihar Assembly Elections:
BJP: 10,081,143
JDU: 9,667,118
RJD: 11,546,055
INC: 4,374,579
2020 Bihar Assembly Elections:
BJP: 8,202,067
JDU: 6,485,179
RJD: 9,738,855
INC: 3,995,319
Now look at what actually happened:
BJP gained 18 lakh votes.
JDU gained 31 lakh votes.
RJD gained 18 lakh votes.
Congress gained nearly 4 lakh votes.
Yes — even the Congress party that is shouting the loudest about “deleted voters” saw its vote tally increase. Yes — even RJD, the supposed “victim,” saw its vote count swell by 18 lakh.
In fact in absolute terms, RJD has got more votes than BJP.
If 65 lakh opposition voters were genuinely deleted, how on earth are all major parties, including Congress and RJD, showing substantial gains?
The 65-Lakh Claim Is Nothing More Than A Excuse To Cover Incompetency
For weeks, the Congress–RJD camp has ranted about “6.5 million voters” being removed. But if such a massive and targeted deletion had really happened:
Opposition vote totals would have collapsed.
At the very least, they would have stagnated.
Instead, we see the opposite: Growth across all major parties — including those screaming conspiracy.
The 65-lakh bogeyman is nothing but a post-defeat pacifier for Rahul Gandhi who suffered a humiliating defeat on Children’s Day.
Higher Turnout, More Votes, Zero Suppression
The 2025 election saw a more engaged electorate. More people voted. More votes were cast for every major party. A state that supposedly lost 65 lakh voters somehow clocked higher participation — a statistical impossibility if the Congress–RJD story were even remotely true.
So Why Did Congress–RJD Lose?
Their loss had nothing to do with voter rolls and everything to do with: uninspiring leadership, stale messaging, weak organisation, and the utter lack of a coherent vision for Bihar.
Blaming SIR is simply their way of dodging accountability — a refusal to confront the fact that Bihar rejected them on politics, performance, and credibility.
The 65-Lakh Myth Has No Legs
Data is a stubborn, unforgiving thing. And Bihar’s 2025 numbers make one fact crystal clear:
There was no mass disenfranchisement.
There was no 65-lakh deletion.
The 65-lakh excuse is only a facade to cover Rahul Gandhi’s miserable leadership.
The people of Bihar weren’t robbed of their votes.
They just showed two dynasts their aukaat.
S. Kaushik is a political writer.
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