The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Saturday said that the ups and downs are “inevitable” in the “endless journey of public service”, a day after it faced one of its worst setbacks in the Bihar assembly elections.
In a post on X, the RJD said it is the “party of the poor” and will continue to raise their voices.
“Public service is an unceasing process, an endless journey. Ups and downs are inevitable in it. No sorrow in defeat, no arrogance in victory,” it wrote in Hindi.
The Tejashwi Yadav-led party won just 25 seats in the 243-member assembly, its second-worst performance in a Bihar election after 2010, when it had received 22 seats.
The party, which bagged 75 seats in the 2020 elections, the most by any party, recorded the maximum vote share this year.
It secured 23 per cent of votes, 2.92 per cent more than the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and 3.75 per cent more than Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU).
RJD’s allies in the opposition bloc, Mahagathbandhan, also failed, with the Congress getting just six seats, the CPI(ML)L two seats, the CPI(M) one, and the CPI zero.
The Mahagathbandhan could only manage 35 seats.