Bihar Elections 2020 LIVE Updates: Weeks before Bihar polls, fodder scam convict and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has been granted bail in the Chaibasa treasury case. The case involves fraudulent withdrawals amounting to Rs 33.67 crore from the Chaibasa treasury in undivided Bihar, when Lalu Prasad was the chief minister. The RJD chief, however, will have to remain in jail as he is serving time in another case related to Dumka treasury.
Exactly 20 days before elections, LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan’s death has cast a pall of gloom in the state, with the potential to impact the outcome of the elections which is son and party president Chirag Paswan is fighting solo after an ugly break with Nitish Kumar’s JD(U).
Bihar assembly elections 2020 would be held in three phases for a total of 243 seats. In the first phase, polling would be held for 71 seats. In the second phase, election would be held for 94 seats on 3 November 3, and the third and final phase on November 7 would witness voting for 78 seats. The Bihar election results would be announced on November 10.
The death of 74-year-old Ram Vilas Paswan, who was identified with the state’s Dalits for over five decades, so near the polls will mean that none of the LJP’s rivals will like to attack the party and its young president strongly.
The LJP has been projecting itself as a post-poll BJP ally and a strong supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi while training its guns on the JD(U), the saffron party’s ally in the three phase elections starting from October 28.
The JD(U) and the BJP had announced that they will fight on 122 and 121 seats in the polls to the 243-seat assembly. The JD(U) has given seven of its seats to former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s party and the BJP has given eleven from its quota to Vikassheel Insaan Party. Since its founding in 2000, the LJP has contested the Bihar assembly twice without entering into an alliance with a bigger party and fetched more than 11 per cent votes on both occasions; in February and then in October of 2005.
The NDA and the opposition alliance of the RJD, Congress and the Left have been seen as the main challengers in the polls. The polls will be held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7, and the counting of votes is scheduled for November 10. Ram Vilas Paswan, one of the most prominent Dalit leaders of the country who had been a part of several governments headed by rival parties, died on Thursday at the age of 74.
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