PATNA: Politics of Bihar has virtually shifted to Delhi where JD(U) is contesting two seats while RJD is in the fray in 4 out of the 70 assembly constituencies going to the polls on February 8.
CM Nitish Kumar and RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav are camping in Delhi. HAM(S) and LJP are also testing electoral waters there.
JD(U), which is contesting with BJP and LJP, has fielded Shailendra Kumar from Burari and Dr SCL Gupta from Sangam Vihar. RJD is also in the fray from Burari besides Kirari, Uttam Nagar and Palam in alliance with the Congress. LJP is contesting from Seemapuri reserved seat where it has fielded Santlal Chawaria.
JD(U)’s Shailendra Kumar, from Sampatchak in Patna district, is pitted against AAP’s sitting MLA Sanjeev Jha, a native of Madhubani in Bihar, and RJD’s Pramod Tyagi, a local.
Gupta is fighting against Congress’s Poonam Azad, also a Bihari and wife of former BJP MP Kirti Jha Azad, and AAP’s sitting MLA Dinesh Mohaniya. Gupta was elected from Sangam Vihar in 2008 on a BJP ticket.
Nitish, who is also the JD(U) national president, along with LJP chief Chirag Paswan and BJP president JP Nadda (who is born and brought up in Patna) addressed a joint public meeting in Sangam Vihar on Sunday. Later in the evening, Nitish and Union home minister Amit Shah addressed a separate meeting in Burari.
Besides Nitish, more than half a dozen of his ministers are camping in Delhi to woo the voters of Bihar origin.
“Besides our ministers, majority of JD(U) MPs from Bihar and senior party functionary are campaigning in Burari and Sangam Vihar,” JD(U) national secretary Afaque Ahmad Khan told TOI over phone on Monday. He said JD(U) national secretary general K C Tyagi would campaign in Burari on Tuesday.
RJD’s Raghuvansh Prasad Singh on Monday campaigned in Burari, while Tejashwi held a roadshow in Palam on Sunday and is scheduled to hold an election rally in Burari.
CM Nitish Kumar and RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav are camping in Delhi. HAM(S) and LJP are also testing electoral waters there.
JD(U), which is contesting with BJP and LJP, has fielded Shailendra Kumar from Burari and Dr SCL Gupta from Sangam Vihar. RJD is also in the fray from Burari besides Kirari, Uttam Nagar and Palam in alliance with the Congress. LJP is contesting from Seemapuri reserved seat where it has fielded Santlal Chawaria.
JD(U)’s Shailendra Kumar, from Sampatchak in Patna district, is pitted against AAP’s sitting MLA Sanjeev Jha, a native of Madhubani in Bihar, and RJD’s Pramod Tyagi, a local.
Gupta is fighting against Congress’s Poonam Azad, also a Bihari and wife of former BJP MP Kirti Jha Azad, and AAP’s sitting MLA Dinesh Mohaniya. Gupta was elected from Sangam Vihar in 2008 on a BJP ticket.
Nitish, who is also the JD(U) national president, along with LJP chief Chirag Paswan and BJP president JP Nadda (who is born and brought up in Patna) addressed a joint public meeting in Sangam Vihar on Sunday. Later in the evening, Nitish and Union home minister Amit Shah addressed a separate meeting in Burari.
Besides Nitish, more than half a dozen of his ministers are camping in Delhi to woo the voters of Bihar origin.
“Besides our ministers, majority of JD(U) MPs from Bihar and senior party functionary are campaigning in Burari and Sangam Vihar,” JD(U) national secretary Afaque Ahmad Khan told TOI over phone on Monday. He said JD(U) national secretary general K C Tyagi would campaign in Burari on Tuesday.
RJD’s Raghuvansh Prasad Singh on Monday campaigned in Burari, while Tejashwi held a roadshow in Palam on Sunday and is scheduled to hold an election rally in Burari.
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