High-voltage campaigning for 57 seats going to the polls in the fifth and final phase on November 5. On the last day of electioneering, NDA and Mahagathbandhan functionaries addressed over 70 election rallies.
The 57 seats, including 24 in the Seemanchal region, are spread over nine districts - Madhubani, Darbhanga, Supaul, Madhepura, Saharsa, Araria, Kishanganj, Purnia and Katihar. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed six rallies in this phase, chief minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad addressed 20 rallies each. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi also addressed three rallies.
Quotes Vs Quotes.
A Poll of the different kind – Quotes varying from beef to brahm-pishach.
The speeches referred development, but shifted to beef, daal, & extraterrestrial topics like 'Shaitan', 'Nar-bhakshi', brahm-pishach' and reservations before boiling down to terror and Pakistan which has grabbed the social media
During the nearly two-month campaigning, leaders of the BJP-led NDA and GA sharpened their attacks on each other over a number of national and local issues. The GA leaders attacked the BJP over RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s views on reservation, the PM’s delayed reaction on the Dadri lynching case, “firecracker in Pakistan” remark of BJP chief Amit Shah and return of awards by writers, filmmakers and scientists. As the heat and dust of high-octane electioneering in Bihar settled down today, rival alliances of BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the grand alliance of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Janata Dal (United) and Congress, are claiming that they will romp home winners and that the other side will be taught a "bitter lesson".
Various functionaries of BJP, LJP, RLSP and HAM-S attacked Lalu and Nitish once again for advocating religion-based quota. They also accused the state government of failing to check corruption and giving patronage to criminals and terrorists.
Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan attacked Nitish for Forbesganj firing in June 2011 in which four persons from minority community were killed. "Nitish government protected a grand alliance leader during Darbhanga terror module probe." He said.
The BJP and NDA leaders took on the GA leaders over “Hindus too eat beef” remark of Prasad, non-performance in 25 years of Lalu-Nitish rule, whipping up caste issues for votes and a sting operation that caught a JD(U) minister allegedly accepting bribe. Modi raised this “bribery video” as well as that of Kumar meeting a tantric at his rallies to attack the GA leaders on corruption and black magic.
On the other hand, grand alliance functionaries claimed that the PM was copying development model of Nitish and criticised the latter for keeping mum on corruption in BJP-ruled states.
"The PM should explain why he has not uttered a word on corruption cases in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. He should also clear the air on involvement of his cabinet colleagues in Lalit Modi case," JD(U) Rajya Sabha MP Pavan Varma said at a joint press conference of grand alliance. He was flanked by RJD national spokesman Manoj Jha and state Congress spokesman Chandan Yadav.
Lalu, in his own style, attacked Modi and said people of Bihar would teach him a lesson. Predicting NDA rout in Bihar elections, Lalu said, "The RSS will force Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah to resign soon after the results of Bihar assembly are announced on Sunday.