Bihar Assembly Election 2020 highlights: Modi to address 4 rallies as campaigning for phase 2 ends on Sunday

The battle in Bihar is heating up with the campaigning for the second phase ending on Sunday evening. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing four back-to-back rallies on Sunday, starting with a rally in Chapra, the political bastion of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav. This will be Modi's third election tour of Bihar. Stay tuned for more updates.

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Bihar polls: PM Modi to address four rallies on November 1

As per the itinerary, from Chapra he will go to Samastipur to address a public meeting in Housing Board ground, then at Gandhi maidan in Motihari and will end the campaign trip with a rally in Bagaha. According to sources in the JD(U) in Patna, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will accompany Modi in Samastipur and Bagaha meetings.

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Bihar polls: From ‘No Modi show’ to ‘only Modi show’, BJP has meticulously cut Nitish Kumar down to size

Nitish, who tore Modi to shreds in 2015 Assembly elections (when he was part of the Grand Alliance) whenever the Prime Minister made a hollow claim (like Rs 1.25 lakh crore Bihar package), now remains mum when the same Modi states that “Nitish could not work under UPA’s 10 years rule”.

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Won't be surprised if Tejashwi Yadav becomes Bihar CM: Sanjay Raut

"There is a youngster who does not have any support, and investigation agencies like CBI and ED are hounding him. He is challenging the Union government as it is suppressing opposition parties," the Sena leader said, referring to Tejashwi.

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Rajnath Singh slams Rahul Gandhi for 'misleading' claim on China

Addressing four back to back rallies in poll-bound Bihar, Singh also tore into the opposition party for having sought "suboot" (proof) of the Balakot airstrikes and demanded an "apology" in the wake of Pakistan minister Fawad Chaudhry's recent statement on the floor of the national assembly.

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Bihar polls: Tejashwi Yadav shares PM Modi's old video to target Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

The video shows Modi listing out a number of scams related to the state government during a public gathering.

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RJD, Congress created obstacles building of Ram temple: BJP's J P Nadda

The day-to-day hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case in Ayodhya in the Supreme Court, which paved the way for the final ruling in the matter after decades, started after the Narendra Modi government came to power at the Centre for a second time, he said.

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BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda holds roadshow in Hajipur

People remember Lalu Yadav's misgovernance & Nitish Kumar's good governance. People want development, says Nadda

One can clearly see, BJP-JDU-HAM-VIP will form govt with clear 2/3rd majority so there is no question of fewer seats. People remember Lalu Yadav's misgovernance & Nitish Kumar's good governance. People want development, saidBJP chief JP Nadda.

Even if we get more seats, Nitish Kumar ji will still be our leader, Nadda said while campaigning inHajipur.

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How will they give 10 lakh jobs? They made over 20 lakh people leave Bihar. They should first tender an apology. Why did Nitish Kumar ji leave them? Because misgovernance and good governance cannot go hand-in-hand: BJP's JP Nadda on RJD's poll promises

WATCH | Stage collapses at Jan Adhikar Party leader Pappu Yadav's campaign rally in Muzaffarpur's Minapur Assembly Constituency.

Tejashwi strongest contender in upcoming polls, says Sanjay Raut

I have been following him [Tejashwi Yadav] for many years now. Many believed he would be weak in this year's assembly elections but he has emerged strongly. Among sons of big leaders who have entered politics in other states, Tejashwi is super, says Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut.

Not an election but movement against unemployment: Tejashwi Yadav

Tejashwi Yadav doubled down on making unemployment a key issue in the ongoing assembly polls in Bihar and said that this time it was no just an election but a movement against unemployment.

Addressing a crowd of mostly young people, Yadav highlighted the rampant unemployment in the state and asked the crowd how many people were unemployed. A sea of mostly young men raised their hands in affirmation.

"Modi, Nitish Kumar can't see the huge number of people that are unemployed in this state," he said.

Battleground Raghopur: In Lalu bastion, no walkover for Tejashwi

He is hopping from one region to another daily to drum up support for the Grand Alliance so that he could become the chief minister of Bihar, but winning his own seat won't be easy for Tejashwi Yadav who is up against an experienced BJP rival in Raghopur constituency.

A part of the Hajipur Lok Sabha seat, Raghopur assembly segment in Vaishali district will vote in the second phase on November 3.

The 31-year-old, the younger son of Lalu Prasad, had taken the electoral plunge from Raghopur in 2015, when he had barely reached the qualifying age of 25 for fighting polls.

BJP calls out Tejashwi Yadav's for 'Iran man' typo

BJP calls out RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's typo in his tweet on the occasion of Sardar Patel's birth anniversary. Yadav had remembered the Iron man in a tweet, but only to misspell Iron as 'Iran'

"Is this how you remember Iron Man, Jungle Raj ke Yuvraj,' BJP replied in a scathing attack on RJD leader.

Congress attacks NDA govt over Munger violence

Opposition in Bihar has attacked JD(U)-BJP over law and order in the state. Congress in Bihar said that the government had thrown the state "into the fire of anarchy" and brought up Munger, where a person was killed when violence erupted during Durga idol immersion.

"In Bihar, the law and order has been stalled at the time of elections also," INC said in a tweet. It asked why were the devotees of Durga subjected to violence and demanded justice.

BJP's Covid vaccine promise in Bihar not a violation of poll code, says EC

Election Commission has ruled out that BJP's Covid-19 vaccine promise in Bihar is a violation of poll code.

"No violation of any of the provisions of Model Code of Conduct has been observed in the instant matter,” EC said in a reply to an activist's RTI.

Why is Covid-19 positive Sushil Modi electioneering, RJD attacks BJP

RJD attacked BJP over saffron party leaders flouting coronavirus guidelines, especially Deputy Sushil Modi, who was advised home quarantine.

"Was the deputy chief minister of Bihar really corona [positive] or just to get sympathy, the BJP leaders are declaring themselves corona victims of one by one? When Sushil Modi has been asked to be a home quarantine, who gave him the freedom to roam the corona in the name of electioneering?" RJD tweeted with a picture of senior BJP leader Sushil Modi campaigning

'Mind lock': Nadda chides Tejashwi over his persistent landlocked Bihar jibe on Nitish

BJP president J P Nadda Friday threw "mind lock" jibe at RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, chastising him over his constant "landlocked Bihar" swipe at NDA ally and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

Addressing a poll rally here, Nadda also assailed the Lalu Prasad-led RJD, saying the party has a history of conducting "Tail Piyawan, Danda Bhanjan" rally, underlining its reputation of preferring muscle power to education. "These days even Tejashwi Yadav has started saying we will do this, we will do that. But who can trust you in an election?" he asked. "Those who have done something good in the past will do so in the future. They (RJD) had in the past held 'Tel Piyawan, Danda Bhanjan' rally and in future too they will only wield lathis and do nothing else," Nadda wryly said.

Observers' no to repolling in 71 seats of Bihar assembly

Observers have not recommended repolling in any of the 71 seats that went to polls in the first phase of the Bihar assembly elections on October 28, sources in the Election Commission said on Friday.

State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) H R Srinivas, in his report based on inputs provided by returning officers and district election officers, has also concluded that repolling was not required in any of the seats, they said.

Bihar polls: Nitish Kumar brings in 'parivar' versus 'praja' connotation in rallies

From Jungle Raj Ka Yuvraj, to "biwi, bachche (wife, kids) jibes, the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar, battling hard against a numerically strong Opposition alliance, has launched a blistering attack on the RJD-led grand alliance on issues, which have the potential to put in on defensive.

Addressing an election rally in Khagaria on Friday, Nitish Kumar recalled that when Lalu Prasad had to go to jail in a fodder scam in 1997 after remaining Chief Minister for seven years, he chose to anoint his wife on the CM chair in his place and contrasted it with how he himself empowered the women of the state in panchayats and urban local bodies, besides providing quotas to SC, ST and backward classes.