Bihar assembly election 2020 phase 1: 71 seats to go for polls on Wednesday amid COVID-19 protocols
More than two crore voters in Bihar will resolve the destiny of 1,066 candidates on Wednesday throughout 71 meeting segments within the first part of elections. Of the two.14 crore voters who will train their franchise, 1.01 crore are ladies and 599 belong to the third gender, in keeping with information supplied by the Election Commission.
Guidelines have been issued by the Election Commission for the protected conduct of the electoral train, which takes place within the midst of the raging COVID-19 pandemic. These embody decreasing the cap on the utmost variety of voters for a polling sales space from 1,600 to 1,000, staggering of polling hours and postal poll facility for these aged above 80, or these stricken with or suspected to be carrying the contagion.
Besides, sanitisation of digital voting machines, carrying of masks and different protecting gear by polling personnel and availability of thermal scanner, hand sanitiser, cleaning soap and water will probably be ensured.
The candidates embody 952 males and 114 ladies, the utmost quantity (27) being within the fray at Gaya Town and the minimal (5) at Katoria in Banka district. Among the foremost political events, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) is contesting in 35 of the 71 seats, adopted by its ally BJP (29), whereas the opposition RJD has fielded its candidates in 42 and its coalition accomplice Congress is within the fray in 20 meeting segments.
Lok Janshakti Party, headed by Chirag Paswan, is within the fray in 41 seats, which embody all of the 35 contested by the JD(U), in step with the decision given by the younger get together president, who not too long ago pulled out of the NDA within the state, to “dislodge” the chief minister from energy. Prominent candidates embody Shreyasi Singh, the Commonwealth Games gold medallist shooter who’s making her debut on the age of 27 because the BJP candidate from Jamui.
Chirag Paswan, who represents Jamui Lok Sabha and insists that he stays loyal to the BJP underneath the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has assured full assist of his get together to the younger debutant. Shreyasi Singh is pitted in opposition to Vijay Prakash Yadav of the RJD, the sitting MLA whose elder brother Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav is a former Union minister and an in depth aide of get together supremo Lalu Prasad.
Notably, the previous Union minister’s 28-year-old daughter Divya Prakash can be making her debut within the adjoining Tarapur constituency because the candidate of her father’s get together. Six members of the state cupboard Prem Kumar (Gaya Town), Vijay Kumar Sinha (Lakhisarai), Ram Narayan Mandal (Banka), Krishnanandan Prasad Verma (Jehanabad), Jaikumar Singh (Dinara) and Santosh Kumar Nirala (Rajpur) are within the fray within the first part.
Of the six, Verma, Singh and Nirala belong to the JD(U), whereas the remaining are from the BJP. The JD(U) ministers search to win their seats contending with the LJP issue. Moreover, Verma, who has held key portfolios like schooling and social welfare, faces the extra problem of wresting an RJD bastion for his get together, having been requested to shift base from Ghosi the place the JD(U) has fielded Rahul Kumar.
Kumar’s father Jagdish Sharma, disqualified upon conviction within the fodder rip-off, had previously represented the Ghosi meeting seat in addition to the Jehanabad Lok Sabha constituency.
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The reserved Imamganj seat in Gaya district, which falls underneath Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituency, will see a proverbial conflict of titans. The former chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha president Jitan Ram Manjhi, who’s the NDA candidate, is the sitting MLA. His bid to retain the seat is challenged by his predecessor Uday Narayan Chaudhary who had been related to the JD(U) until just a few years in the past however is now within the fray because the RJD nominee.
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