Bihar 2020 Election Live Updates: Weeks Before Bihar Election, Forage Scam Convict and RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav Received Bail in Chaibasa Treasury Case, But Little likely to get out of jail given Dumka’s pending case. In the case of the Chaibasa treasury, Lalu received a five-year sentence. He has been convicted in four forage fraud cases, of which he was previously granted bail in two cases. The RJD Supreme is currently housed in a Ranchi hospital and is undergoing treatment for multiple ailments.
Exactly 20 days before the elections, the death of LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan has thrown a cloak of sadness across the state, with the potential to impact the outcome of the elections in which the party’s son and chairman Chirag Paswan, is fighting alone after an ugly breakup with Nitish Kumar. JD (U).
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The Rashtriya Lok Samata Party and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi spearheaded AIMIM yesterday announced a new six-party front for the Bihar elections whose main ministerial candidate will be Upendra Kushwaha. At a press conference in the presence of Owaisi, Kushwaha said that the new grouping is called the “Great Secular Democratic Front”, whose coordinator will be former Union Minister Devendra Prasad Yadav.
Satya Prakash Singh’s incorporation comes a day after RJD nominated Rama Singh’s wife from the Mahnar assembly seat in Vaishali district. Before his death on September 13, Raghuvansh Singh had vigorously protested the addition of Rama Singh, the muscular politician who had defeated him from the Vaishali Lok Sabha constituency in 2014 on the LJP list.
Raghuvansh Singh’s Son Joins JD (U) Ahead of Bihar Polls | Satya Prakash Singh, the son of senior RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, joined JD (U) yesterday, a day after Lalu Prasad’s party gave a ticket to politician Rama Singh’s wife in the assembly elections . Satya Prakash Singh was admitted to JD (U) by the chairman of his state unit, Basistha Narayan Singh, at the party headquarters.
Oppn criticizes the Bihar government for unemployment | Meanwhile, citing reports, the opposition in Bihar attacked the state government over the problem of migrant workers who returned home during the shutdown and have been unemployed ever since.
Lalu Yadav gets bail, but will remain in jail | Meanwhile, RJD Supreme and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Yadav is released on bail in the Chaibasa Treasury case by the Jharkhand High Court. The case is related to the forage scam. However, he will remain in jail as Dumka’s treasury case is still pending.
Rebel in BJP | BJP workers are reportedly upset about the seat sharing agreement with the JD (U) for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. Under the agreement, JD (U) wins seven out of 10 seats in the Samastipur district. The angry workers now plan to run an independent candidate from the Samastipur seat.
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