Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will likely join Modi at the rallies in Dehri and Bhagalpur. In Gaya, JD-U leader in Lok Sabha Rajiv Ranjan Singh Lallan will share the stage with Modi along with former Hindustani Prime Minister and President Awam Morcha Jitan Ram Manjhi. Tejashwi Yadav, the main ministerial face of the Mahagathbandhan, will join Gandhi in Hisua. In Kahalgaon, the former president of Congress will be accompanied by Shaktisinh Gohil and other senior party leaders.
The BJP has already launched a “carpet bombing” campaign for the Bihar elections with Union ministers Rajnath Singh, BJP President JP Nadda, and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, addressing public meetings in many places. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman released the party’s manifesto for Bihar polls during the day that promised the free COVID-19 vaccine once it has been approved by the ICMR, among others.
In addition, they, the BJP Secretary General and Head of State Bhupendra Yadav, Union Minister Ravishankar Prasad, Household Union Minister of State Nityanand Rai, Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and state leaders such as Senior Deputy Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, State Unit Chief Sanjay Jaiswal is cruising the state. From ally JD (U), his boss Nitish Kumar heads to 4-5 public meetings every day and also heads to virtual rallies to reach the maximum number of voters. In the opposition camp, the leader of the RJD, Tejashwi Yadav, maintains the fort in the absence of his father Lalu Prasad.
Tejashwi heads to 8-9 daily rallies, shortening the duration from 15 to 20 minutes just to garner support for his party’s candidates, as well as congressional allies and others. While the NDA in Bihar has the BJP, the JD (U), the HAM and the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) of former Bollywood set designer Mukesh Sahni, the rival five-party grouping is led by the RJD and Congress, CPI , CPI (M) and CPI-ML are its members. The arrival of Modi and Rahul Gandhi on the campaign scene will further heat the survey temperature. With the Bihar elections taking place at a time when COVID-19 is raging in the state, as well as in the country and the world, appropriate preventive measures are being taken in the places of concentration.
With videos on social media showing rampant violation of COVID-19 guidelines with people without a mask and failing to observe social distancing at political rallies, party officials and sources said steps are being taken to safeguard attendees. to the meetings of the two leaders. A report by Gaya citing the organizers said Thursday that the Special Protection Group (SPG) has taken over the Gandhi Maidan, the site of Modi’s rally. Chairs have been arranged for about 15,000 people at a suitable distance from each other. No one will be able to enter the concentration camp without a face mask, they said.
While the prime minister and a handful of NDA leaders will be on the podium, a separate platform has been set up near it for the candidates, the sources said. A report from Bhagalpur said that adequate arrangements are being made for the public meeting of the Prime Minister at the airport.
Regarding the Rahul Gandhi meeting, party leader Sadanand Singh, whose son Shubhanand Mukesh is in the fray from the Kahalgaon assembly seat instead of his father, told PTI that face masks and disinfectants would be distributed among the people in the place. Rohtas District Magistrate Pankaj Dikshit and Police Superintendent Satyabir Singh said that the SPG has already taken over the Saura assembly site. almost 5 km from the Dehri subdivision headquarters, where the prime minister will address the crowd. A report from Nawada also suggested appropriate preventive measures on the Inter school grounds in Hisua for the Rahul Gandhi demonstration.
Rajnath Singh, Nadda and Yogi Adityanath in their speeches criticized national issues such as the repeal of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, the Lord Rama temple in Ayodhya, in addition to attacking the past RJD government in Bihar for 15 years which, according to them, was marked with bad status of law and order and lack of development.
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