While Mr Shah’s leadership has come under a cloud, Mr Modi’s reported charisma and his ability to lead the party to electoral triumphs is now open to question. The Congress, that was virtually wiped out of Bihar, surprised even its harshest critics by bagging 27 seats.The rejection of the politics of polarisation was complete with the BJP-led NDA bagging only 58 seats and the Nitish-Lalu-Congress-led Grand Alliance sweeping the polls, winning 178 of 243 Assembly seats.The knives are clearly out in the BJP.7 per cent. The Grand Alliance registered an overall 41.9 per cent, with the RJD getting 18. This gamble boomeranged badly.Marginalising the state BJP leadership, the Modi-Shah combine had taken it upon themselves to win Bihar for the party. Iconic filmstar MP Shatrughan Sinha was the first to draw blood.RJD is biggest single party, Lalu may again call the shotsIt was a spectacular victory for the Nitish Kumar-Lalu Candle Light Yadav-led Grand Alliance and a resounding defeat for the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah-led BJP. From here, on the journey for Narendra Modi and Amit Shah is likely to be an arduous one. After its defeat in Delhi earlier this year, the crushing defeat in the Bihar elections seem to have taken wind out of the BJP’s chariot and sent saffronites led by Amit Shah scurrying for cover and introspection.8 per cent and Congress 6.Of the seven Independents and others elected, three are from the Left parties. BJP MP from Bihar R. The LJP, led by Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, and the RLSP of Upendra Kushwaha got two seats each. BJP general secretary and Swadeshi Jagran Manch leader Murlidhar Rao claimed both these leaders had "betrayed the BJP" and were the reason for the party’s defeat. "The issue of Bihari versus Bahri (outsider) has been settled once and for all," Mr Sinha said, firing directly at the Modi-Shah duo. Former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi won only one of the two seats he contested and his outfit, HAM, lost in all the other 19 seats it fought.It was a pathetic show by the BJP as the party on its own got just 53 seats out of the 157 it had contested, while its allies also put up a poor show. Mr Modi became the first Prime Minister in recent years to have addressed nearly 30 rallies in any Assembly poll.4 per cent, JD(U) 16.K.The Bihar outcome, experts feel, was a verdict against the politics of hate and the politics of polarisation, that the BJP top brass unabashedly unleashed during campaigning. Singh questioned the distribution of tickets by the party. Discarding its development plank, party leaders went into beef politics, talked of how Pakistan would celebrate a BJP defeat and how Nitish Kumar as CM was favouring Muslims over backward Hindus

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