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Apart from losing his Chief Minister chair of 24 years, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik also lost the Kantabanji Assembly seat that he contested from.
Former Bihar Chief Minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) leader Jitan Ram Manjhi is all set to be appointed Union Minister. Manjhi who won from Gaya – the lone seat HAM(S) contested – in his fourth attempt served as Bihar CM from May 2014 to February 2015.
And now all that is left is the final lap. With 58 seats in eight states and Union Territories, including Delhi, going to polls on Saturday, the action shifts to the final stretch of his long-drawn parliamentary election. Among the states where polling is being held at a single go on June 1 are Himachal Pradesh, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally on Friday, and Punjab with its 13 seats.
As 24 of Bihar’s 40 Lok Sabha constituencies complete polling on Monday, five factors are playing out in the key battleground state, that is the key to the fortunes of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Opposition INDIA bloc.
Like the last three decades, seasoned BJP MP Santosh Gangwar had been preparing for the past several months to contest from his bastion Bareilly in the coming Lok Sabha polls. But last month, when the party announced its list on the day of Holi, the 75-year-old’s supporters were shocked to find that he had been dropped and instead, a former state minister who lost the Assembly polls two years ago had been fielded.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will contest from a second seat, Kantabanji, in the state’s western region, besides his traditional bastion of Hinjili, in the upcoming assembly elections.
Former MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, who has defied his party Congress to file his nomination as an Independent from the Purnea Lok Sabha seat, has accused the RJD, the Congress’s senior Mahagathbandhan partner, of allegedly attempting to end his political career.
One-and-half months after crossing over to the NDA and taking charge as the Chief Minister of the new Bihar government, Nitish Kumar has undertaken his first Cabinet expansion, with 21 ministers including 12 from the BJP being inducted on Friday.