Polling in 78 assembly segments of Bihar in the third and final phase of state elections on Saturday in which 2.35 crore voters were eligible to decide the fate of 1,204 candidates has concluded.
Bihar Election 2020: All eyes are now on the polling for third and final phase of assembly elections in Bihar today in which stakes are quite high for the ruling NDA, trying to avert the anti-incumbency factor, and the opposition Grand Alliance-led by an apparently resurgent RJD. Bihar Assembly Election 2020 is taking place in three phases.
Bihar Assembly election 2020: Nitish Kumar said that nobody had the strength to send anyone out of the country as he rubbished rumours that people belonging to the minority community will be evicted out of the country.
The Bhartiya Janta Party leader on Wednesday announced his two-day visit to West Bengal where the assembly polls are due next year.
Bihar Assembly election 2020: Rahul Gandhi assailed PM Narendra Modi and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar over job creation. Rahul said that Nitish Kumar had promised he would provide jobs to the youth and change Bihar, but he could not deliver.
Bihar Assembly election 2020: Onions were flung towards Nitish Kumar by some protestors at an election rally in Madhubani. The CM was addressing the public in Gangaur village ground in Harlakhi assembly constituency when the incident took place.
Bihar Assembly election 2020: Addressing an election rally in Forbesganj of Araria district, PM Modi said that the NDA had spent the last decade meeting the people's "needs and was now focused on taking care of their aspirations".
Bihar election 2020: Nand Kishore Yadav is contesting elections from the Patna Sahib Assembly seat. He is seeking to retain the seat for seventh consecutive term.
Located in the Saran district, Parsa assembly constituency forms a part of Chapra Lok Sabha seat. Chandrika Roy, once Lalu Prasad's confidant, is contesting from Parsa on JDU ticket.
Tejashwi Yadav, the younger son of Lalu Prasad, had taken the electoral plunge from Raghopur in 2015. He won the election and went on to become the deputy to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Lalu Prasad's elder son Tej Pratap Yadav is contesting from the Hasanpur seat in the Bihar assembly election. He is pitted against sitting legislator from the JDU, Raj Kumar Rai, who poses as Tej Pratap's principal rival who has been holding the seat since 2010. Hasanpur seat is located in the Samastipur district of Bihar but comes under the Khagaria Lok Sabha constituency.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be back in Bihar as the second phase polling begins today. Interestingly, his rallies will be digitally transmitted to 200 grounds in Bihar where more crowds will assemble.
Bihar Assembly Election 2020 second phase polling in 94 constituencies across 17 districts concluded on Tuesday evening. According to the election commission, a total of 53.51 voter turnout was recoreded till 6 pm, informed the Election Commission of India.
Bihar polls second phase candidates: Notable among the candidates is the RJD's Tejashwi Yadav, his elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav, and RJD turncoat Chandrika Rai.
Bihar Assembly election 2020: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav is behind the bars in connection with his role in the multi-crore fodder scam. This is the first Assembly election in Bihar when Lalu is missing from action.
The Election Commission on Sunday said that it will provide free transportation to polling booths to voters in Patna aged above 80 and those having disabilities.
PM Modi on Sunday said that NDA defeated "double, double yuvraj" in Uttar Pradesh and the "double, double yuvraj" will meet the same in Bihar.
The stage and tent set up for Jan Adhikar Party President Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav collapsed on Saturday while he was addressing a rally in Muzaffarpur's Minapur Assembly Constituency.
Nitish Kumar has been sitting at the helm of Bihar's affair since 2005. But he has never contested Assembly elections in Bihar in the last 35 years. Nitish last contested Assembly elections in 1985.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said that if a Munger-like incident had taken place in a non-BJP ruled state, the saffron party would have demanded resignations and imposition of the President's rule.
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