The results of the Bihar Assembly elections were declared on 14 November 2025. In this election, the BJP-led NDA alliance secured 202 of the 243 seats. Following the results, opposition parties raised concerns about the Election Commission’s impartiality, alleging that it favoured the BJP and enabled vote theft (here and here).
In this context, a video (here, here, and here) showing a woman speaking to the media is going viral on social media. In the video, the woman can be heard saying, “Hmm, a question to think about. You think, everybody thinks, that it is a loss. I think many things are blatantly clear, okay? Many things are very clearly visible. If there is an independent candidate and they are receiving zero votes, did they not even vote for themselves? Hmm, a question to think about. Let’s think. Everybody should think about what has happened. Why should I say it? Everybody should think, right? Everyone has a brain. I have said my part, whatever I wanted to say. So, you are saying that the government made a mistake? Okay, fine. Since you are saying it, I accept it. You are telling me this, so I accept it. The government committed irregularities. And who is at the Centre? Hmm. Good question.” (Translated from Hindi to English.) The claim accompanying the video suggests that the woman featured in it contested the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections as an independent candidate and received zero votes. Through this article, let us fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of a woman who contested as an independent candidate in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections saying that she received zero votes.
Fact: The woman seen speaking in the video is not an independent candidate who contested the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections. She is Shivani Shukla, who contested as a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate from the Lalganj Assembly Constituency, and she received 95,483 votes. Furthermore, no contested candidate in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections received zero votes. The lowest number of votes was secured by Shivam Kumar Sinha, an independent candidate from the Gaya Town Assembly Constituency, who received 90 votes. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
To find details about the viral video and the woman speaking in it, we conducted a Google reverse image search using keyframes from the clip. This search led us to the same video uploaded on the official X (Twitter) account of First Bihar Jharkhand News on 17 November 2025. According to the caption, the woman seen in the video is Shivani Shukla, daughter of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Munna Shukla (Vijay Kumar Shukla). She contested the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections as an RJD candidate from the Lalganj Assembly Constituency (here, here).
According to the 2025 Bihar Assembly election results published on the Election Commission’s website, Shivani Shukla, who contested as an RJD candidate from the Lalganj Assembly Constituency, lost the election to Sanjay Kumar Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and secured second position with 95,483 votes.
Did any independent candidate get zero votes in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections?
As per the 2025 Bihar Assembly election results published on the Election Commission’s website, no contested candidate received zero votes.
The lowest number of votes was received by Shivam Kumar Sinha, an independent candidate from the Gaya Town seat, who secured 90 votes. Meanwhile, Munna Kumar, who contested on a party symbol from the same constituency, received 98 votes, which is the lowest among party candidates.
Detailed results of various Bihar Assembly elections, including the 2025 Assembly elections, can be viewed on Factly’s Dataful. The ten candidates who received the lowest number of votes are listed below:
To sum it up, the woman seen speaking in the video is Shivani Shukla, who contested as an RJD candidate from the Lalganj Assembly Constituency in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections and received 95,483 votes.
