Bharatiya Janta Party's Jharkhand election in-charge, Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday expressed sorrow over NDA trailing behind INDIA alliance in the state. Taking to social media X, Sarma wrote, "The loss in Jharkhand is deeply painful for me personally,

The INDIA bloc - consisting of the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, the Congress, and the Rashtriya Janata Dal - has crossed the majority mark in the Assembly election in that state. The BJP took an early lead after the counting of votes began at 8 am,

Despite multiple ups and downs in the past five years, including the arrest of Hemant Soren, the INDIA bloc defeated the BJP-led NDA with a comfortable majority.