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In the recently held elections to the 243-seat Bihar Assembly, the grand alliance won 178 seats, including RJD-80, JD(U) 71 and Congress 27.

Lalu's sons Tejaswi and Tej Pratap Yadav who were elected MLAs in the elections also attended the meeting.

Gandhi had vociferously protested the sacking of AAP founder-members like Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav from the party's PAC in March this year and accused Kejriwal of silencing dissent.

Jaitley also said incidents like Dadri lynching and the killing of rationalist MM Kalburgi in Karnataka were "aberrations" and "not the pattern" in India, and called for distinguishing between those committing such crimes and those just being "loose talke...

The Patna Sahib MP also did not approve of making the Prime Minister the sole campaigner for the party but said, had he not campaigned the BJP would not even have got the seats it won.

Complete list of phase 2 results of the Bihar Assembly Elections 2015.

Here's a complete list of phase 1 results of the Bihar Assembly Elections 2015.

The grand alliance bagged almost a three-fourths majority, riding on the support of Yadav and Muslim voters rallied primarily by his ally Lalu Prasad, who emerged as an unlikely hero from the bitterly fought, month-long election.

The Deputy Mayor's post will held by the BJP for four years, followed by the Sena for one year.

According to sources, BJP general secretary (Organisation) Ramlal was among those who attended the meeting besides RSS joint general secretary Krishna Gopal, who is also a pointsman for BJP.

Modi said that the package is just the beginning and more financial help will be given once the work is done.

"He is certainly showing signs of great change. I have noticed a change, which is very positive," said Sahgal, who recently returned her 'Sahitya Akademi' Award over the Dadri lynching incident and growing inolerance.

Reiterating his support for Nitish Kumar, Kejriwal urged people of Bihar to vote for him.

"You will be surprised to know that so far 1,004 litterateurs won Sahitya Academy awards. Out of them, only 29 have returned their awards," Das said.

The BJP came second winning 42 seats in the civic body, practically an extension of the sprawling metropolis, sharply improving its earlier tally of nine.