Patna: Pushpam Priya Choudhary may hold a master’s degree in development studies from the London School of Economics, but Bihar’s electorate has once again issued her a PhD-level lesson in political realities. The Plurals Party chief—best known for her vow to remain masked until she wins an election—will, it appears, be keeping that mask firmly in place for another five years. Contesting her second Assembly election, she secured 1,403 votes in Darbhanga, trailing BJP’s Sanjay Saraogi by a breezy 96,050.
Naturally, the defeat has only strengthened her conviction that the problem lies not with her vote base but with the voting machines. In a passionate and mathematically adventurous post on social media, Pushpam Priya alleged that the votes of her family, relatives, neighbours, and presumably anyone who ever smiled politely at her, had all mysteriously migrated to the BJP candidate.
“This is statistically impossible,” she declared, insisting that the very uniformity of her dismal vote tally across booths could mean only one thing: grand-scale, booth-by-booth, hyper-targeted EVM mischief—specifically against her. In a flourish of satire-ready drama, she added, “Perhaps the person manipulating the EVMs was not informed that I was contesting from my hometown this time.”
EVM rigging में इस बार मेरी माँ, घर व हर मुहल्ले में रिश्तेदारों तक के वोट बीजेपी उम्मीदवार को ट्रांसफ़र। हर बूथ पर सैकड़ों वोट मैनिपुलेशन का साफ़ प्रमाण! वोटर हतप्रभ कि वोट कहाँ गए? जहां सैकड़ों वोट मिले उन बूथों पर भी संख्या 0-2 से 5-7 तक! हर बूथ पर एक-सा पैटर्न! सांख्यिकीय रूप…
— Pushpam Priya Choudhary (@pushpampc13) November 14, 2025
Observers might note that this is not Pushpam’s first skirmish with unfriendly arithmetic. In 2020, she famously performed worse than NOTA in several constituencies, prompting her to question the legitimacy of the machines even then. But 2025 has elevated her concern from vague suspicion to bold accusation: “Plurals Party votes were transferred to the NDA.”
Senior BJP leader Sanjay Saraogi, who defeated her, has—understandably—not commented on the shocking allegation that Bihar’s voters unanimously forgot to vote for Pushpam Priya even in her own mohalla.
For now, the mask stays on, the EVMs stay blamed, and Bihar’s democracy stays unmoved.
