The election campaign for the first phase of the Bihar assembly elections, in which polling will be held for 121 seats, ended on Tuesday evening at 6 pm, being marked by weeks of intense rallies, huge public gatherings and visits by all parties’ bigwigs.
Until the campaigning ended at 6 pm, the parties’ leaders left nothing to chance, reaching out to voters with promises big and small.
On Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed three rallies, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held five public meetings, BJP president JP Nadda addressed a rally and also led a roadshow, while Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi addressed three meetings.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a virtual interaction with the BJP’s female workers in the state, while current Bihar CM Nitish Kumar addressed a few meetings. RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav held a slew of rallies during the day.
BJP leaders from other states, including Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, and former Union minister Smriti Irani also joined their party people to address voters in Bihar.
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The first phase of the polls on November 6 is slated to be high-stakes, with prominent seats being contested for including Tejashwi Yadav’s Raghopur, Mahua, from where his brother Tej Pratap Yadav is trying his luck with a new political outfit, and Tarapur, from where Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary is fighting the elections.
The other seats in focus in this phase are Alinagar, from where singer Maithili Thakur is fighting the elections on a BJP ticket, Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha’s Lakhisarai, Mokama – where the JD(U) candidate is strongman Anant Singh, who has been arrested in the murder case of his opponent Dular Chand Yadav, and Raghunathpur, where the RJD candidate is late gangster-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin’s son, Osama Shahab.
Polling for the rest of the 122 seats in the 243-member assembly will be held on November 11, and the votes will be counted on November 14.
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