Bihar polls: 2.85 cr voters to decide fate of these key candidates in 2nd phase; check details
New Delhi: Bihar is all set to witness the second and probably the most essential of the three phases of meeting elections during which over 2.85 crore voters will determine the destiny of practically 1,500 candidates in 94 constituencies on Tuesday (November 3).
Of the 1,463 candidates within the fray on the 94 seats, practically 10 per cent (146) are girls. Among the two.85 crore voters, females account for 1.35 crore. Maharajganj has the utmost variety of 27 candidates for any constituency whereas Darauli (04) has the bottom.
Of these 94 meeting segments unfold throughout 17 districts, the destiny of RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, the opposition Grand Alliance’s Chief Ministerial candidate, and his elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav, who’s making an attempt his luck from Hasanpur in Samastipur district, can be sealed within the EVM.
Two ministers Ram Sevak Singh (JDU) and Rana Randhir Singh (BJP) are attempting their luck from Hathua and Madhuban in Gopalganj and East Champaran districts respectively. The ministers are sitting MLAs from the respective seats.
Many ‘bahubalis’ or their wives, sons, brothers or different shut family members are additionally contesting quite a few seats on this section.
31-year-old Tejashwi Yadav is in search of re-election from Raghopur in Vaishali district which he had wrested again for his celebration from the BJP’s Satish Kumar in 2015. Tejashwi has been aggressively making an attempt to money in on the anti-incumbency issue in opposition to the Nitish Kumar authorities.
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The BJP chief had defeated Yadav’s mom Rabri Devi, a former chief minister, in 2010. The BJP has retained its belief in Satish Kumar, hoping that the large killer will be capable of do a repeat of 2010 when, like this time, JD(U) president and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was with the NDA.
Notably, Tej Pratap’s bid to retain Mahua may very well be challenged by the NDA by his estranged spouse Aishwarya as its trump card. She is already taking an lively half within the marketing campaign for her father Chandrika Roy in Parsa, which he has represented quite a few instances and is in search of to retain on a JD(U) ticket this time.
All the 4 meeting segments within the capital city- Patna Sahib, Kumhrar, Bankipur and Digha ? are additionally going to polls within the second section. All these are held by the BJP. State minister Nand Kishore Yadav is within the fray making an attempt to retain Patna Sahib for a seventh consecutive time period.
Multiple-term MLA Nitin Nabin faces a problem in Bankipur from Congress candidate Luv Sinha, son of actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, a two-time native MP who misplaced the seat when he entered the fray after quitting the BJP. The
BJP has retained as its candidates Arun Sinha and Sanjiv Chaurasia for Kumhrar and Digha respectively.
Seven constituencies of Nalanda district, to which Chief Minister Nitish Kumar belongs, additionally go to polls within the second section.
Barring Hilsa, represented by the RJD’s Shakti Singh Yadav, and Bihar Sharif, which two-term MLA Sunil Kumar retained on a BJP ticket in 2015, all of the remaining 5 have been gained by the JD(U). The meeting section named after the district is represented by state minister Shrawan Kumar who’s in search of re-election from the seat.
The JD(U) has suffered a setback within the reserved Rajgir seat the place its sitting MLA Ravi Jyoti, a former police inspector, is now the fray on a Congress ticket.
In the second section, the RJD is contesting 56 of the 94 seats whereas its ally Congress is contesting 24. The CPI and CPI(M), which joined the Grand Alliance not too long ago, are combating 4 seats every. Quite a number of seats are being contested by the CPI(ML), the Left outfit with the strongest presence in Bihar.
BJP has fielded candidates on 46 seats, one other 43 are being contested by these with JD(U) tickets, whereas Mukesh Sahni’s VIP, the most recent entrant within the NDA, is contesting the remaining 5.
The LJP is contesting 52 seats, together with the 2 it had gained in 2015 contesting as an NDA constituent. The celebration has fielded one transgender candidate too on this section.
Plurals Party chief Pushpam Priya Choudhary can also be within the fray in Bankipur, other than BJP`s Nitin Naveen.
According to the Election Commission, votes will probably be forged at a complete of 41,362 polling stations arrange throughout 17 districts. All of which besides Patna, Bhagalpur, and Nalanda are located north of the Ganges.
In the 2015 elections, the Rashtriya Janata Dal of Lalu Prasad had bagged 33 of those seats, the JD-U 30 and the Congress seven whereas the NDA had gained solely 22 seats.
Five years in the past, Nitish Kumar`s JD-U fought the elections in alliance with the RJD and the Congress, whereas the NDA had Ram Vilas Paswan`s Lok Janshakti Party and Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) in its camp.
In this ballot fray, the JD-U has moved to the NDA camp, the LJP is combating its personal battle and the RLSP is part of the Grand Democratic Secular Front.
After voting for 94 seats within the second section, the remaining 78 constituencies will go to polls on November 7. The counting of votes will happen on November 10.
(With Agency Inputs)
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