Tejashwi Yadav Among 1,464 Candidates In Second Phase Of Bihar Polls

New Delhi/Patna:
The second part of the Bihar election begins Tuesday morning with voting for 94 seats throughout 17 districts. RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav, the opposition’s chief ministerial face, is among the many 1,464 contestants. Seven ministers from Nitish Kumar’s cupboard are additionally contesting, as is BJP chief Nitin Nabin, who faces Congress’s Luv Sinha – son of actor-politcian Shatrughan Sinha. Up to now 5 days Mr Yadav and the LJP’s Chirag Paswan have scaled up assaults on the ruling JDU-BJP, concentrating on Nitish Kumar over corruption, unemployment and crime. The Chief Minister, who has been visibly irritated by the assaults, has dismissed them as politicians “by inheritance”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has campaigned in Lalu Yadav’s bastion of Chhapra and raised the Ram temple and Pulwama, whereas additionally calling Tejashwi Yadav, Lalu Yadav’s son, “jungle raj ka yuvraj (prince of the jungle)”.

1. The JDU-BJP alliance will contest a complete of 89 seats on this part, with the remainder allotted to NDA ally Vikasheel Insaan Celebration (VIP). The JDU will struggle in 43 seats, the BJP 46. From the opposition alliance, the RJD will contest 56 seats and the Congress 24. Mahagathbandhan Left allies will contest the remaining 14 seats.

2. In 28 seats the BJP will face a problem from RJD candidates. It should face the Congress in 12 others, with the remaining six seats might be towards Left occasion candidates. NDA ally VIP will face RJD candidates of their 5 seats. As for Nitish Kumar’s JDU, they may face RJD candidates in 24 seats, the Congress in 12 and Left candidates within the different seven.

3. Tejashwi Yadav is contesting from Raghopur towards Satish Kumar of the BJP and Rakesh Raushan of the LJP. His brother, Tej Pratap Yadav, can be contesting this part – from Hasanpur, the place he faces a tricky struggle towards two-time sitting MLA Rajkumar Rai of the JDU. Tejashwi Yadav, Lalu Yadav’s political inheritor, has drawn huge crowds at every of his rallies up to now, with guarantees of 10 lakh jobs, infrastructure and development, whereas criticising Nitish Kumar over improvement and mishandling of the Covid lockdown fallout.

4. Voting will happen in Patna Sahib too, from the place senior BJP chief and minister Nand Kishore Yadav is concentrating on a seventh straight win. He’ll face the Congress’s Pravin Singh. Voting may even happen in Nalanda, which is the Chief Minister’s house turf and which JDU chief Shrawon Kumar is hoping to assert for a sixth straight time. He faces Gunjan Patel of the Congress and the LJP’s Ram Keshwar Prasad.

5. Different districts voting on this part embrace Siwan, Gopalgunj and Begusarai. Within the 2015 polls the RJD received 33 of 94 seats, with the JDU selecting up 30 and the BJP 20. The Congress received seven seats and the LJP, which has set it stall out as an impartial unit this time, with occasion chief Chirag Paswan repeatedly needling Nitish Kumar, received simply two. The RJD emerged with round 45 per cent of the vote share. The JDU received 40 per cent.

6. Prime Minister Modi, who held 4 rallies on Sunday alone, visited Chhapra – considered as a Lalu Yadav stronghold – and pitched the NDA’s “double engine” mannequin to counter Tejashwi Yadav’s claims of poor improvement in Bihar. He additionally pounced on Pakistan minister Fawad Choudhary’s remark about Pulwama to accuse the opposition of doubting the “valor of the courageous little kids of Bihar”. He additionally referenced the constructing of a Ram temple in UP’s Ayodhya and Article 370 to assault the Congress.

7. Each the Prime Minister and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who this week attacked the PM and Nitish Kumar for commenting on his and Tejashwi Yadav’s household slightly than speaking about farmers or unemployment, will deal with two rallies every on polling day.

8. The delicate relationship between the BJP and JDU – the topic of a lot debate on this election – has been highlighted with the 2 events largely holding separate rallies and barely mentioning the opposite. At a rally in Samastipur although, the Prime Minister and Nitish Kumar shared a stage, with the Chief Minister known as a “buddy”. PM Modi mentioned the “NDA authorities is being fashioned once more below the management of Nitish babu“. In flip, Mr Kumar, at a rally in Patna, praised PM Modi for aiding within the improvement of the state.

9. Nitish Kumar, who broke away from the NDA after Narendra Modi was named its prime ministerial candidate, solely to rejoin in 2017, has been the main focus of assaults by opposition leaders Tejashwi Yadav and Chirag Paswan. On Monday morning he hit again, describing them as politicians “by inheritance” and that he had “sacrificed every thing for Bihar”. Like PM Modi, Mr Kumar additionally referred to the RJD administration as “jungle raj” and mentioned his authorities had been the one to determine regulation and order.

10. The third and closing part of the election – wherein 78 seats vote – takes place November 7. Outcomes for all 243 Meeting constituencies might be declared on November 10, with Nitish Kumar bidding for a fifth time period. Within the first, which was held October 28, voting was held for 71 seats and a turnout of round 55 per cent was recorded.