Patna: Campaigning for the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections will end today and 49 constituencies will go to poll in this phase on Monday.
583 candidates, including 54 women are in the fray. The districts that will go to polls in the first phase are Samastipur, Begusarai, Khagaria, Bhagalpur, Banka, Munger, Lakhisarai, Sheikhpura, Nawada and Jamui.
The remaining four phase polling will held on October 16, October 28, November 1 and November 5. Counting of votes will take place on November 8.
The three constituencies in Munger district — Munger,Jamalpur and Tarapur — are going to polls in the first phase of assembly elections on October 12. Lalu’s branding of the polls as ‘forward vs backward’ fight may have invited him some flak but political watchers say it has helped him rally around the Yadav faithfuls.
BJP is banking on the success of its efforts to pocket a chunk of Yadav votes like the Lok Sabha elections to turn the heat on the JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance in this relatively weak zone.
Bureau Report
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