Modi to address two poll rallies on Oct 30 with eye on 44 seats
PATNA, Oct. 26 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be addressing election rallies on October 30 at Muzaffarpur and Chhapra, BJP state president Dilip Jaiswal said on Saturday.
"The Prime Minister is coming to Bihar again on October 30, right after Chhath Puja. His first programme will be in Motipur, Muzaffarpur at around 10 am. After Muzaffarpur, he will address a rally in Chhapra at around 1 pm, and after these two events, his programs will continue in November," said Jaiswal.
A senior BJP leader said that the PM would also be addressing election rallies on November 2 and 3 before the first phase polls scheduled on November 6.
PM Modi, through his election rallies at Muzaffarpur and Chhapra would be targeting at least 44 assembly segments in and around two districts. Out of these 44 seats, BJP had won 15, RJD 17 and JD(U) 5, Left 3, Congress 2. Two seats were won by VIP and those candidates had later joined BJP.
"The target is to wrest these seats we lost by a small margin and improve performance in districts we did not perform well, particularly Saran district," said a BJP leader. In Saran district, out of the 10 assembly seats, RJD had won 6 and BJP 3.
Earlier, Prime Minister Modi visited Samastipur and Begusarai and addressed two rallies in the poll-bound state.
On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi kick-started his election campaign for the high-stake Bihar Assembly elections, asserting the NDA's return to power in the state from Samastipur and Begusarai.
Samastipur, which has 10 Assembly constituencies, has never been a BJP stronghold, even though the party achieved a perfect strike rate in the 2010 Assembly elections, winning both seats it contested there. Its ally, the Janata Dal (United), however, has long been the dominant player in the district. So, when the JD(U) switched sides ahead of the 2015 polls, the BJP's tally dropped to zero. The rival alliance, comprising the JD(U), the RJD, and the Congress, consequently swept all 10 seats that year.
A predominantly OBC and EBC inhabited areas comprising 112 castes and accounting for 36% of Bihar's population. The EBCs have increasingly shaped the state's electoral narrative in recent years....
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