Why did the Modi campaign on 12 October, when first phase of polling was on? In all, he speaks for more than two hours of the six-hour travel time in an area now believed to be the stronghold of Manjhi, who the BJP is banking on to deliver a large chunk of the Mahadalit votes. Instead, Shah has been running nearly a parallel campaign, touring the state frenziedly, holding a plethora of election meetings even in remote hamlets, sometimes as many as three a day.
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“Even in the first phase there was a very decisive movement of voters for the NDA”. He is targeting the youths with promises on IT, jobs, skill training along with 30 per cent quota for women in government jobs. The tide seems to be turning in favour of the Grand Alliance of Nitish, Lalu and Congress. That the BJP appears self-confidence that it is going to win Bihar hands down. Now this propaganda is proving counter-productive as people are saying that this election is for choosing a chief minister for their State and not a prime minister for the country.
Hitting back at Modi for levelling charges of corruption against the state government over a recent sting operation against a Bihar minister Awadhesh Prasad Kushwaha in the course of his rally in Jehanabad, the chief minister said: “He’s preaching about corruption but on all other counts his actions don’t match his words”. “There can not be any development in Bihar if Nitish goes along with Lalu”. “This is why we initially refrained from attacking Lalu much”, he says. PM Modi is at the fulcrum of electioneering in Bihar.
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Irani, who reached the height of her acting career while playing Tulsi in the ever-popular television serial “Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi” in the early part of this century, further said that it was the NDA government at the Center that gave the Central University to Bihar in Motihari after the Congress-led UPA rejected the demand of it repeatedly.
