well as long as its a minority govt, i think ' barely won' applies for all practical purposes.
when you gotta lick some ass to get your shit done coz 'muh tiny party knows without it there is no govt and will fully make you lick its ass' , it is ' barely won' in reality.
Harsh, i know, but true.
BJP is a 240 seat party, there is no ass licking, there is saam, daam, dandh and bedh.
Cong is 97 seat party, there is a lot of ass licking and ass blasting with
alliance buddies who have the other ~150 or so seats, 35 more needed to become govt so imagine...
Major Alliance buddies include Uddhav Sena, Power NCP, TMC, DMK, SP and the Coomie grouping
BJP has a gaggle of 1-2 seat party allies and the Paswan-putra with 5 seats for a total of 21 extra seats, these are all their pets and kept in place
There's Nitishwa's party with 12 seats
Naidu's party with 16 seats
Eknath Sena with 8 seats iirc, but this is a "controlled" party
these all make a total of 293 govt, 275 is majority mark
Nitish can leave tomorrow and nothing will change.
Naidu for now is happy with the gibs AP is getting and is buddy buddy with Govt.
Naidu also has the benefit here of being the VVIP alliance member as compared to Cong so he can ask for the best gibs and it will be provided.
"barely won" doesn't apply here at all.
And they won't stay put with 240, they are going to flip the MPs from MH, UP and other states and win by-polls bit by bit, piece by piece till they reach close to 275