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RJD president Lalu Prasad gave away party tickets to candidates favoured by him, unfazed by inability of the INDIA bloc, helmed in Bihar by the Rashtriya Janata Dal, to formally announce a plan for seat-sharing.
In a major announcement ahead of the assembly elections, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Thursday said that if the RJD-led Opposition INDIA bloc came to power in Bihar, it would bring an Act to ensure that every family in the state has at least one member with a government job.
One point two hundred thousand Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) are to be deployed in Bihar to make the upcoming Assembly elections free, fair, and peaceful in all 243 constituencies of the state.
The upcoming assembly elections in Bihar have an estimated first-time voter population of more than 5,700 per constituency an outcome that is likely to be decisive considering the narrowing victory margins being experienced in recent surveys.
The Election Commission of India on Monday announced the schedule for the general elections to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar. The polling will be held in two phases — on November 6 and November 11, 2025, while the counting of votes will take place on November 14, 2025.
As Bihar is gearing up for the 2025 Assembly elections, all eyes are on the Mahagathbandhan where the partners are still struggling to decide who will contest how many seats. The alliance is led by Tejashwi Yadav’s RJD which includes Congress as well as new entrants JMM and RLJP.
Pasupati Kumar Paras-led Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP) and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) will contest the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar under the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), leaders familiar with the development after a meeting held at leader of the Opposition in assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav’s residence on Saturday.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, RJD’s Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and a host of other top leaders of INDIA bloc participate in a march in the state capital on Monday, marking the conclusion of ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ against ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and discrepancies in the exercise.
A political dispute has arisen in Bihar after RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav accused Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha of holding two voter ID cards, one for each of the Lakhisarai and Bankipur Assembly constituencies.
The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will set out on the ‘Matdata Adhikar (voters’ rights) Yatra’ in Bihar in three phases covering 30 districts from August 17.
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