Bihar election 2020 Live: MoS Nityanand Rai taunts RJD's Tejashwi Yadav over 10 lakh job promise

Bihar Election 2020: Nachari Mandal, an independent candidate from Bahadurpur constituency in Darbhanga, came to file his nomination on a buffalo. He says, "I come from poor and weaker section. I am son of a farm labourer and since I don’t have a four-wheeler, I decided to come on a buffalo."

As political campaign heats up in the poll bound Bihar state, MoS Nityanand Rai has challenged RJD CM candidate Tejashwi Yadav saying, "I challenge him (Tejashwi Yadav) for open debate on any issue wherever he wants. He's spreading illusion with his promise of providing 10 lakhs job. What RJD couldn't do in 15 yrs, how will he do it in a day."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to hit the campaign trail in poll-bound Bihar. According to the Bihar BJP's in charge, Devendra Fadnavis, the Prime Minister will address at least 12 public meetings in just four days. The first rally will be held in Sasaram on October 23. He will address two more rallies in Gaya and Bhagalpur on the same day. The three prominent towns in the south Bihar will go to polls in the first phase on October 28. The Prime Minister will visit the state again on October 28. During his second visit, PM Modi will address rallies in Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur and Patna. On November 1, he will address the people of Chhapra, East Champaran and Samastipur. The last three rallies will be held on November 3 in West Champaran, Saharsa and Araria.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released a fresh list of its star campainers for phase 2 of the upcoming Bihar Assembly Election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, party president JP Nadda, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, and other leaders included in the list.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday asserted that Nitish Kumar will be the next chief minister of Bihar after the coming assembly elections in the state. Shah also said that the NDA will get a two-third majority in the polls. "There is no if or but. Nitish Kumar will be the next chief minister of Bihar. We have made a public announcement and we are committed to it," he told a TV channel.

LJP national president Chirag Paswan on Monday reiterated that even a single vote for Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) in the Assembly elections can spoil the future of Bihar. "We can actually imagine the upcoming five years by looking at the Nitish Kumar's tenure of the last five years. We have to take urgent measures to bring Bihar out of this state of helplessness," he said.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said that what Nitish Kumar Ji did with Chirag Paswan is not good. "Chirag Paswan needs his father at this time more than ever before but Ram Vilas Paswan ji is not among us and we are sad about it. Nitish Kumar did injustice to Chirag Paswan," he said.

Ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, former Union Finance Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram has invoked US democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and asked voters to "choose hope over fear". "Joe Biden, the Democratic Party candidate in the US elections, said yesterday that 'We choose hope over fear, unity over division, science over fiction and, yes, truth over lies'," Chidambaram tweeted.

With just 10 days remaining for first phase of Bihar elections, actor-turned-politician Manoj Tiwari started the election campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state on Sunday by launching a song "Suna Ho Bihar ke Bhaiya", the remake of his original song "Jiya Ho Bihar ke Lala" from the movie 'Gangs of Wasseypur'.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi held joint election campaign on Sunday and launched a blistering attack on rival Lalu Prasad highlighting the crime situation and lack of development during his RJD rule in the past.