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The NDA may have performed better in Bihar than Uttar Pradesh, winning 31 of the 40 seats in the state, but its vote share has dipped significantly, with victory margins of its candidates shrinking considerably.
HAVING ended without a seat in 2019, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) recovered to four constituencies in Bihar this time, with the INDIA bloc’s tally in the state growing to nine.
It is believed to be the first republic in the world that holds a lot of importance for both Buddhists and Jains. Now Vaishali is in the middle of a hard-fought electoral battle between a strongman politician fielded by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the sitting MP from the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) whose husband is an influential local leader said to be close to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
“Hamara naam kis liye suna hai? Jhooth bolne wala nahi, na? Hum logon ke liye bhid jaane wale hain, chahe sarkar koi rahe, CM, PM koi rahe (Why have you heard my name? Not for telling lies, right? I fight for the people irrespective of the government and whoever is the CM or PM).”
THE ARREST of former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren was seen as one potent issue around which the Opposition INDIA bloc could rally together. The ease with which Hemant’s wife Kalpana Murmu Soren slipped unofficially into her husband’s role in the party was also heartening for Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) ranks. Framing this contest as one between her jailed husband and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she recently posted: “Braveheart Soren stays in everyone’s hearts. His every work has reached people’s hearts. How can you extract him out of people’s hearts?”
Riding high on its performance in the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, which was a vast improvement on the Lok Sabha polls a year before, the RJD-Congress alliance hopes to increase its tally in the Lok Sabha elections.
Of the five Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar that will vote in the second phase on Friday, the most talked about is Purnia in the Seemanchal region where more than sitting MP Santosh Kushwaha of the Janata Dal (United), the Opposition or the BJP, it is three-time MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav who is contesting as an Independent.
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary is one of the BJP’s tallest OBC leaders in the state. In an interview with The Indian Express, he talks about the Opposition’s criticism of Narendra Modi for his comments on Opposition leaders who “cook mutton during saawan (monsoon)” or “eat fish during Navratri” — the PM’s dig at RJD leader Lalu Prasad, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, and Lalu’s son Tejashwi Yadav — the Bihar caste survey, and his criticism of Nitish Kumar in the past.