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The Election Commission said it received nearly 2 lakh requests for exclusion and 30,000 for inclusion of names in Bihar’s draft electoral rolls. The final list, crucial for the November polls, will be published on September 30 after verification

Ready to support any candidate from Musheerabad division, say party workers

Yadav claimed the people's mandate was for a change but it was manipulated.

NDA likely to have wafer thin majority; RJD all set to emerge as single largest party

As trends from all 243 seats became available, the NDA constituents were ahead in 125, with BJP candidates leading the table in 72 seats and the JD(U) in only 47.

The Election Commission had in March asked political parties to justify why they chose candidates with criminal history to contest elections.

The provisional turnout in the third phase of polling on 78 seats spread in 15 districts is 57.58 per cent, according to poll panel data updated till 8 pm

He claimed that the people's love and bonding with the BJP had not been liked by political rivals and they had lost sleep.

The Assembly election holds significance as it marks a generational shift in the State's politics

The maximum 55.95 per cent turnout has been recorded in Kaimur, followed by 55.44 per cent in Lakhisarai, Buxar (53.84 per cent), Bhagalpur (52.16 per cent) and Patna (51.02 per cent) among others.

Kumar, the JD(U) president, spoke about the Patna metro project, smart cities plan and the Ujjwala scheme among other measures to laud Modi.

The Congress knows how to run a country, how to stand with farmers and give employment, but "we don't know how to lie", he said.

Of the 2.14 crore voters who will exercise their franchise, 1.01 crore are women and 599 belong to the third gender, according to data provided by the Election Commission.

Terming it as double standards of BJP leadership, Rao has questioned why the BJP, which is ruling the entire country, is not promising the free vaccine for Telangana people and the rest of the country

Earlier in the day, Modi also addressed his first poll rally in Bihar and referred to the Galwan Valley clash with Chinese troops.

He claimed people used to avoid buying a new car out of fear that a particular political party might get to know about their prosperity and they might end up getting kidnapped for ransom.

'BIMARU' is an acronym for Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. It was used to refer to the 'poor economic conditions' of these states.

The BJP and the JDU had agreed to contest on 121-122 seats respectively in the 243-member assembly.

Union Finance Minister and BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman released the party's manifesto.

As the song has earned quite a popularity among all the sections in the state, it is severely hurting the image of the NDA government at the time of election.