As the Nitish Kumar-led coalition marched to victory in the Bihar Assembly polls, the Congress today lost no time in crediting Rahul Gandhi for it, hailing him as the "architect" of the Grand Alliance.


Beaming beatifically at a press conference, Rahul said, the results are a victory of unity over divisiveness, humility over arrogance, love over hate.
"This is a message for the PM, the BJP and the RSS, that they cannot divide and rule. You cannot set Hindu against Muslim. This country is for everybody," Rahul said.


He added that the PM and BJP must shed their arrogance. He said the Bihar results was a victory of truth and that divisive agenda will fail.  Congratulating JD-U chief Nitish Kumar, Rahul said that the Congress wants him as the chief minister as was decided.


The Congress is leading in 19 seats so far and had contested 41 seats out of 243 as part of the Grand Alliance.


Congress general secretary Shakeel Ahmed and the rest of the party has insisted that the Grand Alliance could not have been possible but for the effective role played by the Congress Vice President.


Leaders recalled that it was Rahul who brought Nitish and Lalu Prasad together and played a key role of catalyst at a time when the RJD supremo was having reservations.


The victory in Bihar is also being talked about as a good timing for Rahul to take over as party chief.


Bihar is the first victory for Congress after a long time -- the last major victory being the Karnataka assembly polls where it defeated the BJP. The 40-minute meeting between Rahul and Nitish Kumar in Delhi months ahead of the polls played a crucial role and is being termed as "path breaking", Congress sources said.


Rahul ended his speech by saying that the nation has waited for more that a year for PM's 'car' to start and that unless steps on the accelerator, the people will open the car door and throw him out as they did in Bihar.