New Delhi: The election commission of India had announced the election for Bihar Assembly. The Assembly poll is to be hold in three phase in state i.e. October 28, November 3 and 7 and the results will be announced on November 10.
This is the first major election to be held in the middle of the worldwide corona virus crisis. Bihar has to elect a new 243-member assembly by November 29.
Sunil Arora, the Chief Election Commissioner while announcing the election of Bihar said this move as a “historic election” and the world’s biggest in the time of the corona virus. There will be an extra voting hour, separate voting for Covid patients, suspects and those in quarantine, and no physical contact during the campaign.
Saffron Party will fight election in Bihar with its ally party Janata Dal (United) while RJD with Congress will face election of 2020 Assembly election.
The ruling JD(U) has said that JD(U) will contest on all the 243 seats with BJP in the state assembly.
Notable that there is rift between JD(U) and the LJP – an ally of the BJP – has increased from last few days. LJP has targeted the Bihar government over its functioning in the state. Recently, Chirag had reportedly urged the BJP to contest the elections on more seats than the JD(U).
According to a report Chirag will likely contest the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar as the LJP is keen to project him as the chief minister face in the state.
LJP Leader Chirag Paswan said, “Our party strongly believes that the CM should be elected directly by people and not by selection. If you are not elected by people, you won’t get the feedback from the ground. So far there has been no discussion among partners about seat sharing. As we are losing more days, our Plan-B to put candidates against all JD(U) candidates is actually becoming Plan 1. We are prepared to give a tough fight.”
Bureau Report
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