LIVE updates of the Bihar 2020 elections: A day after several exit polls gave the RJD-led opposition alliance in Bihar an advantage over the ruling NDA, Congressional Leader P Chidambaram said Sunday that the people of the state will send a clear message of who are more concerned with issues like employment. food, health and inflation. Several exit polls on Saturday gave the RJD-led opposition alliance in Bihar an advantage over the ruling NDA, while at least three of them predicted a clear majority for the ‘Mahagathbandhan’, which has cast Tejashwi Yadav as its main ministerial face. Most exit polls also predicted that RJD would emerge again as the largest party in the 243-member assembly along with a clear drop in the seat count of Bihar Prime Minister JD (U) led by Nitish Kumar. .
“Mr Modi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) believes that he can win all elections in Hindutva, Ram Temple, Pulwama, repeal Art 370, CAA and qualify all opposition parties and leaders as anti-national,” Chidambaram said. . “I think the people of Bihar will send a clear message that they are more concerned with jobs, food, health care, inflation, fair prices for farmers, infrastructure and industrial development. Will the prime minister listen to their voices?” he said in a series of tweets. Claiming that the Indian nation is as “divided as the United States,” Chidambaram said President-elect Joe Biden’s thanksgiving speech is the kind of speech that “we want to hear from every Indian prime minister. The counting of votes for the three-phase Bihar assembly elections, which ended on Saturday, will take place on 10 November.
Modi believes that he can win all elections in Hindutva, Ram Temple, Pulwama, the repeal of Art 370, CAA and qualify all opposition parties and leaders as anti-national.
– P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) November 8, 2020
The Indian nation is as divided as the United States. President-elect Biden’s Thanksgiving speech is the kind of speech we want to hear from every Indian Prime Minister.
– P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) November 8, 2020
Here are the LIVE updates on the Bihar 2020 elections:
◕ Tejashwi asks the party cadre to be civil when the results come in: With exit polls predicting the victory of the RJD-led Grand Alliance, the party on Sunday warned its workers not to allow celebratory firing and “impolite behavior” towards rivals on the day of the counting of votes on the 10th. November, regardless of the results. In a tweet to its workers, the party said: “Whatever the results of the November 10 elections, they must be accepted with absolute moderation, simplicity and courtesy. Inappropriate fireworks, celebratory shots and rude behavior towards our rivals or their supporters. It will not be accepted at any cost, “he said.
◕ Yediyurappa will be replaced as Karnataka CM after the results of the Bihar poll, says Siddaramaiah: Congressional senior leader Siddaramaiah reiterated on Sunday his claims that the ruling BJP will change his prime minister in Karnataka after the results of the Bihar assembly poll are released on November 10. “Irresponsible” and had even said that the latter will be removed as leader of the opposition by Congress, after the defeat of the party in the partial elections to two segments of the assembly in the state.
“I have information that after the results of the Bihar elections on November 10, there will be a change. The talks have been going on for a long time, to change,” Siddaramaiah said. Speaking to reporters in Shivamogga, he said that there are two or three factions in BJP and that talks are underway for the past six months to change.
◕ Is Bihar moving beyond the mandal politics of Lalu and Nitish and paving the way for a new form of diplomacy ?: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) could likely be the largest party in Bihar’s elections and the opposition alliance or the Mahagathbandhan could form the next government in the state, several exit polls published on Saturday suggested. With heavyweights like Lalu Prasad Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan out of the political circuit and Nitish Kumar battling a strong anti-incumbent, Bihar voters finally seemed to have overcome their ‘Mandal hangover’ of more than three decades. Lalu Prasad Yadav’s involvement in JP’s movement of the 1970s against Congress marked the beginning of his political career. Yadav became the prime minister of Bihar in the 1990s and his party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal, ruled the state for 15 years.
◕ ‘Badlaav’ is the buzzword in Bihar where young people want to give Tejashwi youth a chance: Bihar’s policy changes every 15 years. A visible trend in the iconic Jayprakash Narayan movement is taking shape again in this year’s Bihar elections. For the first time in more than three decades, the youth are emerging as an independent caste electorate for a state leader. While the Lalu-Rabri duo ruled the state for 15 years and Nitish Kumar took over from 2005 to 2020, the youth of Bihar have now voted for ‘badlaav’ (change) rising above the caste matrix. read more
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