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The Election Commission's announcement has set the stage for a keen showdown after months of intense buildup between the NDA and Mahagathbandhan.
In the 2020 Assembly polls, voting in Bihar was held across three phases.The exercise may be be held in fewer phases this time.
The CEC also spoke of a number of “initiatives” that were being introduced in polls to the 243-strong Bihar assembly, which had “38 constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes and another two for Scheduled Tribes”.
Tejashwi Yadav, a former Deputy CM who is now the leader of the opposition, shared on his X handle a video of the function, held at New Delhi, which the chief minister has attended virtually from his residence
CEC Kumar also reiterated that Special Intensive Revision in Bihar (SIR), concluded before the upcoming election, is in accordance with the law.
Kumar's visit came days after the EC published its final electoral roll, prepared as part of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) carried out over a period of three months.
Highlighting the role of booth-level officers, he said they played a vital role in the poll body's successful completion of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.
The burqa issue has previously surfaced in elections, including the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, where a BJP candidate was briefly involved in a controversy over checking the identity of veiled voters at a polling booth, underscoring its potential to become a flashpoint.
Citing media report, Ramesh pointed to glaring inconsistencies in the voters’ list, such as “247 voters in a single household in Jamui” and the same individual’s name appearing “three times on the same booth.”
Chhat, an important festival in Bihar that is celebrated six days after Diwali, will fall on October 25-28 this year.
"The 'parda nasheen' women should get their faces matched with the voter ID photo through women so that only genuine voters can get their right to vote", said Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal.
Observers were instructed to remain fully accessible to political parties, candidates, and voters for the redressal of their grievances.
The term of the 243-member Bihar assembly ends on November 22 and polls in the state are likely to be held in multiple phases beginning at the end of this month and in November.
With the announcement of Bihar election dates likely any day now, the BJP faces a tough choice on whether to play it safe, or risk a dramatic overhaul to stay ahead.
A briefing meeting of central observers which includes general, police and expenditure, appointed by EC for Bihar elections is scheduled to be held in New Delhi.
Taking a dig at Gandhi over his 'vote theft' allegations, BJP questioned the lack of an official complaint by the Congress leader and his party against the SIR in Bihar.
Of the 22 Assembly seats in the Shahabad region of the state, the NDA managed to win only 2 seats in 2020. Both Pawan Singh and Chirag Paswan draw their popularity from the same belt.
The number of voters in the draft roll was 7.24 crore, following deletion of about 65 lakh names declared as "absent", "shifted" or "dead".
According to the reports, Singh is set to join the Rashtriya Lok Morcha. He met party chief Upendra Kushwaha at his Delhi residence.
With the NDA and the Mahagathbandhan locked in a close contest, welfare schemes, not rhetoric, could tilt the outcome in a large number of seats, the survey shows.
Defying expectations, Nitish Kumar's JD(U) is projected to script a major comeback in the coming Bihar elections with the NDA looking set to retain power in the state, new opinion poll projections reveal.
Prashant Kishor also accused Nitish Kumar of compromising with crime and corruption and pointed to "murder charges" against BJP leaders Samrat Choudhary and Dilip Jaiswal.
The CM unveiled projects worth Rs 1,585.59 crore at an event held at Sabeya Airport Field in Gopalganj
Addressing a BJP workers' conclave in Araria district of Bihar, Shah vowed to drive out each and every infiltrator once the NDA retained power in the state, getting a two thirds majority in the upcoming assembly polls.
Without taking Prasad's name, Kumar made the remark during the launch of Bihar's Mukhya Mantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
