Jubilee Post News & Views
- 8.10% voting till 10 am
- 12 ministers in fray
Jubilee News Desk
Patna : The last phase polling is underway in Bihar where about 8.10% votes were polled till 10 am. In all 25 districts of Seemanchal, Tirhut, Kosi and Mitilanchal regions are voting on 78 seats to elect a new government while the first two phases were done on October 28 and November 3.
By 9 am 7.69% votes were polled. IN the first phase a total 55.68%votes were polled. IN the third phase the voter turnout was 55.70%. The results will come on November 10.
About 2.5 crore electorates are eligible to decide the fate of 1204 candidates including 12 ministers too. A staff on poll duty at the Rampur Kanya Mahavidyalaya in Supaul reportedly died of heart attack.
In Saharsa Lovely Anand, former MP and wife of incarcerated former MP Anand Mohan, is a RJD contender. EBC Mallah leader Mukesh Sahni is also fighting tough against RJD in Simri Bakhtiyarpur seat. Socialist leader Sharad Yadav’s daughter Suhasini Raj is contesting the Bihariganj seat of Madhepura.
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Former minister and senior RJD leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui (Keoti), Lalu Prasad’s close aide Bhola Yadav (Hayaghat), BJP leader Sanjay Saraogi (Darbhanga), BJP minister Binod Narayan Jha from Benipatti, AIMIM Akhatarul Iman (Amour), veteran RJD leader and former minister Ramai Ram (Bochaha), BJP minister Suresh Sharma (Muzaffarpur), JD (U)’s Bima Bharati and Lesi Singh from Rupauli and Dhamdaha, respectively.
Seemanchal belt can give a advantage to the RJD-led Grand Alliance, but the Asaduddin’s Owasi’s AIMIM, contesting on 16 seats in this round, may cut into Grand Alliance’s votes and could win one to two seats. NDA also faces a tough fight in Purnia, Araria and Katihar.
That Seemanchal is a stronghold of the Grand Alliance can be understood from being its savour in 2010 Assembly polls in which Nitish-led NDA had won 206 of 243 Bihar seat.
