Oct 26, 2020
PATNA: On the last day of campaign for the first phase of elections in 71 constitutencies, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made personal attack on the RJD president Lalu Prasad and claimed he has no faith in his daughters.”Is this kind of ideal you want to be followed”, he said.
He made these comments at Mahuva in Vaishali district from where elder son of Lalu Prasad,Tejpratap Yadav, was elected to the state Assembly in 2015.This time, he has shifted to Hasanpur in Samastipur district.
Nitish said these (Lalu-Rabri) are the leaders who have 8/9 children, including seven daughters, but they have no faith in daughters and promoted sons only.
In Assembly elections, none of the seven daughters of Lalu-Rabri is visible in the campaign. Misa Bharti, MP and eldest daughter, was active in 2019 Lok Sabha elections and 2015 assembly elections.Now, the entire show has been hijacked by the youngest son Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who has been projected as CM candidate against incumbent Nitish Kumar.
Nitish also attacked the Lalu family for “betraying” veteran leader and RJD vice-president Raghuwansh Prasad Singh even at the last stage of his hospital days.
Elections for 71 constitutencies spread over 16 districts, mostly in the once Maoist affected central Bihar, will be held on Wednesday.There are 1066 candidates and 2.14 crore electorate.This is the first mass election exercise during the Corona period in Asia.
In the 2015 Assembly elections, RJD had captured 27, JDU had won 18, BJP 13 and CPI(ML) and HAM(S) one each.
Those involved in Wednesday’s polling are former chief minister and HAM(S) president Jeetan Ram Manjhi who faces former speaker and RJD candidate,Uday Narain Chaudhry in Imamganj, Commonwealth gold medalist Shreyanshi Singh and her rival sitting RJD MLA Vijay Prakash, Anant Singh, a jailed don Anant Singh as RJD candidate against Rajiv Lochan of the Congress.Eight cabinet colleagues of Nitish Kumar are also facing elections once again.
On the last day of first phase campaign, RLSP president and chief ministerial candidate of Grand Democratric Secular Front announced there would be four deputy chief ministers in Bihar if he was elected CM.He said representatives of Muslims, dalits, extremely backward castes and upper caste would be deputy CM under him.
All the constitutencies going to polls on Wednesday are considered significant as caste and class clashes took places in all these districts, be it Bhojpur, Kaimur, Rohtas, Arwal, Nalanda, Aurangabad, Jahananabd, Gaya or Jamui. Massacres were common in the last 90s in these areas and once Indira Gandhi had travelled to one of the massacre hit villages-Belchi on an elephant as there were no roads linking the village.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president J P Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh,Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Vaghel, former chief minister of Jharkhand Raghuwar Das, Nitish Kumar,Tejaswhi Prasad yadav were the star campaigners during the first phase which was marked by Corona virus claiming lives of two ministers too.
Top BJP leaders, including former Maharadshtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, BJP general secretaries Saudan Singh and Bhupinder Yadav, half a dozen MPs are down with the virus.Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi who contracted Corona virus during his campaign is admitted in AIIMS along with health minister Mangal Pandey and former agriculture ministerNarendra Singh.
Three people,including a candidate, were gunned down during the pre-poll violence in Sheohar when the campaign was at its peak on Saturday night.
–INDIA NEWS STREAM
