evidence: How do you look at the Bihar mandate? Moreso because for the first time, AIMIM has got five seats in the state. [...] Due to this success, the impression that goes to the common man is that the AIMIM is a political party of a certain section. More so when one realises the formidable presence of Muslims in the Seemanchal area. [...] People can have their opinions, but I can tell you with empirical facts that out of the 20 seats that the AIMIM contested in Bihar, it won five seats. Among these 20 seats, six were won by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)—three by the BJP, two by the Janata Dal (United) and one by the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP). The Mahagathbandhan won nine seats: the Congress won four, the RJD three and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) two. In none of the seats where the AIMIM lost and the NDA won did it get more votes than the margin of victory of the NDA candidates. Where is the question of the AIMIM eating into the so-called secular vote and enabling the NDA to win? It is all humbug. It is a myth circulated to hide their failures.