Union Home Minister Amit Shah will on Sunday address the people of Bihar in his first virtual rally , ahead of the Assembly elections in th...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will on Sunday address the people of Bihar in his first virtual rally, ahead of the Assembly elections in the state, the Hindustan Times reported. As the Bihar Assembly’s term ends on November 29, the elections are scheduled to be held later this year.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, the Janata Dal United and the Lok Janshakti Party are part of the National Democratic Alliance in the state. The BJP will contest the elections under the leadership of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The party is likely to be challenged by the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Congress combine, apart from other smaller parties.
Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal said that the Union minister will sound the poll bugle through the virtual rally, and it will also be broadcast live on Facebook. He said the party has a target of roping in “at least one lakh people across the 243 Assembly segments in the state”.
On Friday, the BJP had rejected Lok Janshakti Party national president Chirag Paswan’s proposal of backing the saffron party even if it decides to choose a different chief ministerial candidate. Paswan had recently also expressed his dissatisfaction over Nitish Kumar’s handling of the migrant crisis during the coronavirus pandemic.
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