As it kickstarted its campaign in the State, the BJP on Sunday released a list of 30 star campaigners for the first phase of Bihar Assembly elections, scheduled to be held on October 28. It also released names of 46 candidates, including some fresh faces, for the second phase of polls in the State.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, party president J P Nadda, General Secretary in-charge of the State Bhupendra Yadav, Bihar BJP President Sanjay Jaiswal, Deputy-Chief Minister Sushil Modi, Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and former Maharashtra Chief Minister, also state in-charge of campaign, Devendra Fadnavis, figure in the list of main campaigners in the three-phased election.
Several of the central ministers who hail from the state and form the core of Bihar leadership including Ravi Shankar Prasad, R K Singh, Giriraj Singh, Ashwani Kumar Chaubey, Nityanand Rai have been given charge of spearheading the campaign in the high-stake Assembly poll.
This apart, former central Minister R K Yadav, former Delhi BJP Chief Manoj Tiwari, former state Chief Mangal Pandey, Sanjay Paswan and Nivedita Singh are also to hit the campaign ground.
BJP has also enlisted services of former Chief Ministers of Jharkhand Raghubar Das and Babulal Marandi for the state poll besides Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, an old hand in the State affairs.
The BJP is contesting the assembly elections in alliance with the JD(U). Two other parties —Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) — have also been included in the alliance.
BJP will ‘focus on the governance of the Modi-Government’ and its fulfilment of the centrally-funded state projects, including major bridges, roads, railway lines, power projects, many of which have been completed and inaugurated recently by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The brand Modi will play and work in the state,” sources said.
Hours before releasing the list of 30 star campaigners , the BJP released a list of 46 candidates for the second phase of the Bihar Assembly elections which will be held on November 3.
Launching the party’s campaign for the Bihar polls at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Gaya, Nadda listed out the BJP-JD(U) government’s achievements and lauded Nitish Kumar for his handling of the coronavirus crisis in the State. “Leadership of India is secured in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and it is important that the leadership of Bihar is secured with Nitish Kumar,” Nadda further said.