Bihar Assembly Election 2020 highlights: Why give second chance to a CM who didn't provide employment? asks Tejashwi Yadav

The first phase of the Bihar Assembly poll is just days away. Mahagathbandhan's CM face Tejashwi Yadav and incumbent CM Nitish Kumar addressed separate rallies in the state.Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address two public election meetings at Valmiki Nagar and Kusheshwar Asthan in Bihar on October 28. An opinion poll predicted the return of NDA to power in the state.

Bihar polls: Slipper flung at CM Nitish Kumar after rally speech in Muzaffarpur

A slipper was flung towards Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by some protestors while he was going towards his helicopter after completing speech at an election meeting in Sakra in Muzaffarpur district, but it missed the target.

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Chirag Paswan wants to get himself burnt in the 'lantern': JD (U) hits back at LJP

As the campaigning for the first phase of election in Bihar came to an end on Monday, the LJP president Chirag Paswan sharpened his attack on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and reiterated that he (Nitish) would be sent to jail if found involved in corruption cases.

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Rahul Gandhi to address 2 poll meetings in Bihar on October 28

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address two public election meetings at Valmiki Nagar and Kusheshwar Asthan in Bihar on October 28.

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'Son-rise' in Bihar polls: Will Tejashwi Yadav make it big?

As the Bihar Assembly Elections get interesting by the day, young politician and Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD) heir Tejashwi Yadav has embarked on the journey to take on the Nitish Kumar-Narendra Modi duo.

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Concerned about nepotism: Nitish Kumar taunts RDJ's Tejashwi Yadav

Those who don't have any knowledge or experience, are speaking against me at the behest of their advisors. We're not interested in the campaign, we're concerned about nepotism. We consider the whole Bihar as one family but for a few, only blood relatives are their family: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

Crime has reduced in Bihar as state is now at number 23 ranking, according to govt data. We're interested only in work, not in our self-promotion: Nitish Kumar

Society can only go forward when everyone is uplifted: Nitish Kumar

Congress and Rahul Gandhi became Pakistan's lawyers when Article 370 was abrogated: J P Nadda

RJD is the same party that spread anarchy and unrest in Bihar, and now they are promising jobs: J P Nadda

India is is seeing all-around development in all aspects under Modi, and Bihar is seeing all-around development under Nitish Kumar: J P Nadda

Article 370 was an obstacle to One India, but the power you gave to BJP helped bring it down on August 6: J P Nadda

People wanted a grand Ram Temple, but Congress always tried to stall it in the court: J P Nadda

Modi has provided insurance cover 55 lakh poor people worth Rs 5 lakh each: J P Nadda

In 1,000 days, Modi brought electricity to 1 crore households: J P Nadda

Opposition used to make fun of us for insisting on Jan Dhan accounts, and now 20 crore women have benefitted from it during the lockdown: J P Nadda

When the lockdown hit, we had only 1 testing lab, and now we have over 100 testing labs: J P Nadda

We have to keep in mind that the electorate decides what kind of government they want: J P Nadda

If we have to develop Bihar and India, then it is important to vote NDA into power: J P Nadda

When our candidates stand to contest election, they talk about progress and development, but 15 years ago, caste and religion politics was being used: J P Nadda

A grand Ram Temple is being built. Some people have a problem with it. They also have issues with Article 370 (abrogation). I'd like to say clearly, there won't be 'do nishan do pradhan'. There'll be Tiranga everywhere: RS Prasad in Aurangad - ANI

I consider all of Bihar as a family: Nitish Kumar

We will work to improve road connectivity in the state: Nitish Kumar

We will train youth on technology and set up skill development centres: Nitish Kumar

We are working to ensure people's quality of life improves further: Nitish Kumar

Bihar is on the 23rd place in national crime statistics: Nitish Kumar

We had less than 24,000 crore to work with in 2005, and now we have over 2 lakh core in the state budget: Nitish Kumar

We saw that Bihar had few self-help groups, and took a loan from World Bank to help self-help groups grow and develop: Nitish Kumar

We understood the potential of women, and gave them 50% reservation, which resulted in more women becoming public representatives: Nitish Kumar

You have allowed us to work for this long. I ask you to give us another chance to work so we can take Bihar even higher: Nitish Kumar

Inflation is the biggest issue. BJP people used to wear a garland of onions. Now it's about to touch Rs 100/kg. There's unemployment, starvation is rising, small traders are destroyed, poverty is rising. GDP is falling, we're going through an economic crisis.

Those who were speaking about onion when it touched Rs 50-60/kg are now silent when it has crossed Rs 80/kg. Farmers are being destroyed, youth is unemployed, Bihar is poor and people are migrating for education, jobs & medical help. Starvation is on a rise: Tejashwi Yadav, RJD - ANI

Free Covid-19 vaccine in Bihar, are others from Bangladesh? Uddhav to BJP

Maharashtra Chief MinisterUddhavThackeray on Sunday slammed the BJP over its poll promise of free Covid-19 vaccine in Bihar, adding does that party think those from other states hail from Bangladesh or Kazakhstan.

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Why is liquor ban not being reviewed? Is liquor smuggling not going on? Everyone is getting it. Govt & admn are colluding. There is not one minister in Bihar govt who doesn't know about it. If you don't want to review it, it means you yourself are involved.

Everyone knows where the money is going, CM has to contest election & do a lot of things. All of this is a matter of investigation. It'll be investigated by our govt - that where is all the money of liquor smuggling, '7 Nischay' scheme & funds by centre going: Chirag Paswan, LJP - ANI

Bihar polls: LJP to promote religious tourism if voted to power, says Chirag Paswan

Holding Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar responsible for not developing religious tourism in his 15-year-rule in the state, LJP chief and MP Chirag Paswan on Sunday asserted that he will develop various places associated with sufi saints in the state to improve revenue collections.

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Bihar polls: Jitan Ram Manjhi and the art of turning the tide

There isn’t a shoe that Jitan Ram Manjhi hasn’t filled in Bihar politics.

Starting his political career with the Indian National Congress in the 1980s, Manjhi movedto the undivided Janata Dal and later to Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal. In the last decade, he was inducted into the JD(U) byincumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

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