Bihar Assembly elections phase 2 | Voting begins; Tejaswi, Tej Pratap in fray
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The essential second phase of Bihar ballot for 94 seats throughout 17 districts of the state started on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.
Huge deployment of safety forces are on every polling cubicles. Election will finish at 6 pm attributable to COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2015 meeting elections out of those 94 seats, RJD had received 33 whereas, 30 seats had gone to JD(U). The BJP and Congress celebration had registered win on 20 and 7 seats respectively whereas, Lok Janshakti Party had received the ballot in two constituencies and, one seat every had gone to Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) and Independent candidates.
In 2015 each RJD and JD(U) had contested meeting ballot collectively and had acquired 151 seats (RJD-80, JD-U 71) to kind the federal government in 243 state meeting. The BJP had acquired 53 seats.
However, later, chief minister Nitish Kumar had parted methods from RJD to hitch fingers once more with BJP once more to proceed as CM of the state.
Here are the most recent updates:
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Parties locked in powerful contests
In this second phase, the Rashtriya Janata Dal contesting 56 seats whereas, Bharatiya Janata Party on 46 and the Janata Dal (United) 43 seats in this phase. The Congress celebration has put up candidates in 24 constituencies whereas, the three Left events on 14 seats. The NDA ally Vikasheel Insaan Party (VIP) will probably be contesting on 5 seats out of whole 11 seats allotted to them.
On 28 seats RJD candidates will probably be locked in direct contest in opposition to BJP nominees whereas, on 24 seats they (RJD) will probably be combating in opposition to JD(U) candidates.
The Congress celebration candidates will probably be contesting 12 seats every in opposition to JD(U) and BJP nominees. The VIP candidates, in this phase ballot, are pitched in opposition to RJD candidates on all 5 seats.
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COVID-19 pointers
In view of the coronavirus scenario, no more than 1,000 folks will vote at one sales space and carrying face masks has been made obligatory. Earlier the higher restrict of voters at a sales space was 1,600.
The Election Commission mentioned 12.8 lakh hand sanitiser bottles (100 ml) every and 6.4 lakh bottles (500 ml every) have been supplied throughout the state to be used in the course of the train, apart from 1.06 lakh infrared thermometers, 25.6 lakh pair of gloves, 56 lakh masks and 12.8 lakh face shields.
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Lalu’s sons in fray
Besides Tejashwi, his elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav and 4 state ministers are additionally in the fray in this phase, which additionally options one transgender candidate, fielded by the LJP. Congress chief Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha can be contesting the ballot in this phase.
(With inputs from Agencies)
On Monday, the leaders of the National Democratic Alliance, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Lok Janshakti Party addressed a collection of public conferences on Monday to hunt votes for his or her candidates in the final and third phase of elections in Bihar scheduled for November 7.
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