<p>Patna: With hardly three months left before the Election Commission announces the poll schedule for Bihar Assembly elections in September, both the camps – the NDA and the I.N.D.I.A. bloc – are leaving no stone unturned to woo the electorate. </p><p>It is against this backdrop that the Prime Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</a>, who has just returned from the three-nation tour, will visit Bihar on Friday (June 20).</p><p>The visit is significant in the sense that this will be Modi’s 51st visit to Bihar as the Prime Minister. </p>.Day before PM's Bihar visit, gunmen open fire in Patna, no one injured.<p>As a token gesture, he will give the 51,000 beneficiaries the first instalment under PM Awas Yojna at a function in Siwan, the home town of India’s first President Dr Rajendra Prasad. Besides, he will flag off a Vande Bharat train between Patna and Gorakhpur (UP).</p><p>Later, Modi will also address a rally in Siwan which will cover not only the electorate of Siwan (stronghold of late RJD strongman Mohd Shahabuddin) but adjoining Saran (Lalu’s previous Lok Sabha constituency) and Gopalganj (Rabri Devi’s home town). </p>.PM to flag off first indigenous locomotive for export to Guinea on June 20 in Bihar.<p>The BJP is planning PM’s visit in every belt in such a calculated way so as to help the saffron camp emerge as the single largest party so that this time it could form a government in a State which has seen no BJP CM so far.</p><p><strong>Poll arithmetic</strong></p><p>Significantly, Modi and Nitish Kumar had campaigned for NDA together during the 2020 Assembly elections, but still the RJD emerged as the single largest party with 23.5 per cent votes and 75 seats in the 243-member House. </p><p>That too, when Tejashwi Yadav campaigned for the RJD single-handedly in the absence of Lalu Prasad who was behind bars, serving sentence in a Ranchi jail after being convicted in the fodder scam.</p>.Tejashwi lashes out at Nitish for not responding to his letter.<p>Notably, Tejashwi missed the CM’s chair in 2020 narrowly as its alliance partner – the Congress – which contested on 70 seats, could win merely 19, thereby preventing the Grand Alliance from wresting power.</p><p>“Aware of the RJD’s strong hold in the rural belt, Modi this time is leaving no stone unturned to woo the electorate. Buoyed by the success of ‘Operation Sindoor’ and the Centre’s decision to conduct nationwide caste census, Modi is making sure to strike an emotional chord with the Bihar voters,” opined senior journalist Giridhar Jha.</p>
<p>Patna: With hardly three months left before the Election Commission announces the poll schedule for Bihar Assembly elections in September, both the camps – the NDA and the I.N.D.I.A. bloc – are leaving no stone unturned to woo the electorate. </p><p>It is against this backdrop that the Prime Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</a>, who has just returned from the three-nation tour, will visit Bihar on Friday (June 20).</p><p>The visit is significant in the sense that this will be Modi’s 51st visit to Bihar as the Prime Minister. </p>.Day before PM's Bihar visit, gunmen open fire in Patna, no one injured.<p>As a token gesture, he will give the 51,000 beneficiaries the first instalment under PM Awas Yojna at a function in Siwan, the home town of India’s first President Dr Rajendra Prasad. Besides, he will flag off a Vande Bharat train between Patna and Gorakhpur (UP).</p><p>Later, Modi will also address a rally in Siwan which will cover not only the electorate of Siwan (stronghold of late RJD strongman Mohd Shahabuddin) but adjoining Saran (Lalu’s previous Lok Sabha constituency) and Gopalganj (Rabri Devi’s home town). </p>.PM to flag off first indigenous locomotive for export to Guinea on June 20 in Bihar.<p>The BJP is planning PM’s visit in every belt in such a calculated way so as to help the saffron camp emerge as the single largest party so that this time it could form a government in a State which has seen no BJP CM so far.</p><p><strong>Poll arithmetic</strong></p><p>Significantly, Modi and Nitish Kumar had campaigned for NDA together during the 2020 Assembly elections, but still the RJD emerged as the single largest party with 23.5 per cent votes and 75 seats in the 243-member House. </p><p>That too, when Tejashwi Yadav campaigned for the RJD single-handedly in the absence of Lalu Prasad who was behind bars, serving sentence in a Ranchi jail after being convicted in the fodder scam.</p>.Tejashwi lashes out at Nitish for not responding to his letter.<p>Notably, Tejashwi missed the CM’s chair in 2020 narrowly as its alliance partner – the Congress – which contested on 70 seats, could win merely 19, thereby preventing the Grand Alliance from wresting power.</p><p>“Aware of the RJD’s strong hold in the rural belt, Modi this time is leaving no stone unturned to woo the electorate. Buoyed by the success of ‘Operation Sindoor’ and the Centre’s decision to conduct nationwide caste census, Modi is making sure to strike an emotional chord with the Bihar voters,” opined senior journalist Giridhar Jha.</p>