India, Nov. 14 -- The Tejashwi Yadav-led Grand Alliance (GA) has failed to make a decisive mark, with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) heading for a thumping majority in the 243-member state assembly, trends showed.

It appears that Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which is expected to get fewer seats compared to the 2020 elections, failed to expand its vote base beyond its traditional Muslim-Yadav (MY) support, which constitutes about 34% of the state's population.

Tejashwi tried to expand his social base by wooing Kushwaha and Koeri voters by giving them a good number of tickets, but counting trends show the experiment failed. The GA's vote share was about 37%, compared to 48% for the NDA, which appears to have secured the maj...