All eyes on Bihar elections 2025 as campaign enters final stretch

With just four days to go before Bihar heads to the polls the political battlefield is heating up with fiery speeches and lastditch promisesThe state is witnessing a highvoltage campaign as leaders from across the spectrum mdash from Nitish Kumar Amit Shah and JP Nadda to Priyanka Gandhi mdash descend upon Bihar to rally support for their partiesThe NDA and BJP are doubling down on their governance record and development claims while the RJD JDU and Congress sharpen their attacks over unemployment inflation and law and orderBihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday urged people to once again vote for the NDA in the upcoming assembly polls for faster development of the stateIn a video message uploaded by his party Janta Dal United JDU on social media on Saturday Kumar also said that law and order has ldquoremarkably improvedrdquo in the state after his government came to power in November 2005ldquoPeople knew Biharrsquos situation before we came to power in 2005 We prioritised the restoration of law and order and established the rule of law in the state Now being a Bihari is a matter of pride for the residents of the staterdquo the chief minister saidTo which BJP President JP Nadda added that the opposing Rashtriya Janata Dal wants to bring back ldquojungle rajrdquo in Bihar if it is voted to power He said ldquoUnder RJD Law and order had collapsed and along with that an industry of kidnapping started growing here Siwan had witnessed the terror of late gangsterturnedpolitician Sahabuddin and once again RJD nominated his son in the assembly polls Lalu Prasadrsquos party wants to bring lsquojungle rajrsquo back to Biharrdquo he allegedThe 243member Bihar Assembly will go to polls in two phases on November 6 and November 11 with results set to be announced on November 14Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday attacked the NDA dispensation in Bihar over unemployment and migration issues at a rally at Begusarai She said ldquoThey first divided people went to war but couldnrsquot divert attention from real issues so they are now stealing votesrdquoldquoThere is no doubleengine government in Bihar but only a single engineeverything is controlled from Delhi Neither are you being heard nor is your CM Nitish Kumar respectedrdquo the Congress MP claimedShe claimed that the BJP only resorts to blaming Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru ldquoLet me also talk about the past Who set up the factories Who established IITs and IIMs The answer is the Congress and Nehru jirdquo she claimedMeanwhile the Communist Party of India Marxist CPIM which is a part of the opposition INDIA bloc on Saturday issued its manifesto in Bihar Senior CPIM leader Brinda Karat said ldquoThe NDA has been running a negative campaign pointing fingers at the opposition which was perhaps inevitable since they have nothing to showcase by way of achievements in the two decades they have been in power in BiharrdquoReferring to the killing of Jan Suraaj Party supporter Dular Chand Yadav in Mokama where supporters of the deceased have been alleging the complicity of local JDU candidate and former MLA Anant Singh Karat said that ldquoThe incident is proof that mafia raj and jungle raj prevail in Bihar under the NDArdquoKarat said her partyrsquos manifesto was in line with the INDIA blocrsquos commitment to ensuring employment generation in BiharThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever