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Bihar is the first state in India to go to polls in the middle of the pandemic. The three-phase assembly elections will begin on October 28, 2020. The counting of votes will take place on November 10.
On October 19, an independent candidate rode on a buffalo on his way to file nomination paper in Bihar's Darbhanga.
Election fever is high in Bihar these days and with top political leaders hitting the street and holding rallies the social distancing norms have gone for a toss.
Bihar Legislative Assembly election will be held to elect members to the Legislative Assembly of the Indian State of Bihar. The election will held in three phases for a total of 243 seats; the first for 71 seats on 28 October 2020.
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There are many candidates in Bihar elections who have been successful in getting a party ticket. But there were some candidates who started crying after denied party ticket, some even threatened to give up food and water.
Former MP Lovely Anand, wife of former RJD candidate Anand Mohan is all set to contest from Saharsa assembly constituency of Bihar. She is currently engaged in public relations campaign. In the same sequence, she reached Saharsa on Friday where the M
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party JD (U), who part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar, suspended 15 leaders who had done anti-party work from the primary membership of the party had the nam of Dadan Pahalwan also.
LJP president Chirag Paswan in an exclusive interview with India TV said that he had no faith in CM Nitish Kumar and also accused him of planning and plotting against his party candidates during 2014 LS election.
LJP president Chirag Paswan has said that his ties with the BJP are intact and would ensure Nitish Kumar's defeat.
The Congress Party has roped in former President of Aligarh Muslim University Student’s Union Dr Maskoor Ahmad Usmani as a candidate from Jale seat, Dharbhanga for the upcoming Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 that is all set to start on October 28.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold 12 rallies in poll-bound Bihar, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, who is overseeing the party’s election preparations, said on Friday.
In the wake of a call for a bandh by different political parties to protest against the passage of the three contentious agriculture-related Bills by Parliament, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Friday led a 'tractor march' on the Patna roads. He said that "black Bills" pertaining to agriculture had been passed.
The Election Commission of India will address a press conference on Friday ahead of the upcoming Bihar Assembly Election. During the presser, the ECI will announce the dates for the assembly elections in Bihar at 12:30 am. This will be the first state election to be held in India since the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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