Patna : With the Bihar Assembly elections fast approaching, political parties are actively campaigning across the state. Meanwhile, the NDA and the Grand Alliance (Mahagathbandhan) are intensifying their efforts as Union Home Minister Amit Shah begins a two-day visit to Bihar on Friday.
He will address a BJP workers’ convention in Bettiah (West Champaran) and then hold an election strategy meeting with state leaders in Patna. Following this, on Saturday, he will visit Sarairanjan in Samastipur and Forbesganj in Araria district to address additional workers’ conventions.
Additionally, the BJP already held a key meeting in Patna with core committees from all districts to finalize candidate selections.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, appointed as Bihar polls in-charge, is expected to play a pivotal role, as he did in previous Bihar and West Bengal elections. Moreover, he will guide campaign strategies across the state.
On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually release the first installment of Rs 7,500 crore under the Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana, transferring Rs 10,000 each into the accounts of 7.5 million Jivika women in Bihar. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will also join the event.
Nitish Kumar continues his whirlwind district tours, inaugurating and laying foundation stones for development projects worth thousands of crores every day. As a result, his high-profile ‘Pragati Yatra’ signals that JD(U) has geared up fully for the electoral showdown.
The Congress Party held a working committee meeting in Patna on Wednesday to strategize outreach to Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs) and launched a statewide signature campaign against alleged vote theft, further building momentum from Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’.
On Friday, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will participate in a Mahila Samvad program at Patna’s Sadakat Ashram, the venue of the recent Congress Working Committee meeting. Afterward, she will address an election rally in Motihari, the district headquarters of East Champaran.
With campaign rallies, welfare schemes, and high-stakes strategy sessions happening simultaneously, Bihar now witnesses unprecedented political churn, thereby setting the stage for a fierce electoral contest in the coming weeks.
–IANS
