PATNA: With the ongoing preparation of the remaining three phases of Bihar polling, The BJP has devised a formula to connect to the Dalits and the extremely backward castes (EBC). A state BJP minister said on Friday, “the DEOR formula stands for the inspiring mixture of Dalit-mahadalit, EBCs, Organizational party network and the Reservation issue”

Polling for 81 seats is over while voting for 162 constituencies over three days will occur in the coming weeks. 22 out of 38 districts of 162 constituencies consists of riverine areas where the groups of EBC caste such as Nishads (boatmen), Bind and Mallah (fishermen) and Nonis is politically significant. Dalits and EBCs attributes for around 38% population of Bihar.

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Patna: After a 36-hour break for Durga Puja, the star campaigners of the ongoing Bihar Assembly polls are back to the action, resuming their campaigning today by addressing election rallies.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad, BJP president Amit Shah and his senior party leaders left Patna to address rallies today after the much-required break that Durga Puja provided on Thursday.

“Nitish Kumar is addressing about half a dozen rallies while Lalu Prasad is about to address seven rallies separately,” a leader of Grand alliance said.

BJP President Amit Shah is three campaigns and a former deputy chief minister and the main contender for the Chief Minister’s post from BJP, Sushil Kumar Modi is addressing nearly four election rallies.

After a span of nearly one month of continuous election rallies, the star campaigners spent Dussehra and Durga Puja day at their residencies.

Nitish Kumar is the candidate for the post of Chief Minister from Grand alliance while Sushil Kumar is the candidate for the post from BJP-led NDA.

The third phase of the Bihar Polls is scheduled on October 28.

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“The incident of Faridabad is condemnable, but the RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav has easily forgotten the incident during the 15 years rule of his party in Bihar, hundreds of Dalit were massacred,” in a series of tweets he said.

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Bihar: The first phase of the Bihar elections for 49 Assembly seats in 10 districts passed off peacefully including the Maoist-affected areas, amid tight security on Monday with 57 percent vote cast.

The National Democratic Alliance throbbed a sigh of relief over the increase in voting percentage and desires are increased with the 57% turn out votes. Women voters outnumbered the male voters by five percent.

With the completion of the first phase of Bihar poll, political observers believe that the trend is still 50-50 for both the parties. “It is still not very clear who is in advantage and who is losing, but available scenario indicates, a close and tough competition ahead,” said, a political observer N.K Chaudhary.

However, both the party leaders consider the polling trend going in their favour. “The BJP-led NDA will not acquire more than 10-12 seats in the first phase,” announced a JD(U) leader, while the BJP leaders of the state said: “the high poll percentage shows that the people are fed up with the ruling party and have voted for change this time.”

The voting percentage, in these districts during the 2010 Assembly polls was 50.85 while this time it is increased to 57,” State Election Comission said. Arrangements of tight security were made and Central paramilitary forces were deployed at every booth. Five helicopters and three drones were deployed for surveillance in the Maoist-affected districts.

According to the state Election Commission, around 110 suspected persons were arrested and some vehicles were also seized for the purpose of maintaining peace.

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Most of the constituencies voting in the opening round are JD(U) strongholds which had won 29 seats in 2010 in alliance with the BJP. Under the new alignment, the JD(U) is contesting 24 seats in the first phase.

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Total 456 candidates are in a battle for the second phase of the Bihar Assembly polls. Polling for 32 seats will be held on October 16.

“Out of the total of 456 candidates, 110 (24 percent) candidates have asserted serious criminal cases which include cases related to murder, communal disharmony, attempt to murder, kidnapping and crime against women. while 142 (31 percent) candidates have asserted criminal cases against themselves,” the ADR said in a statement.

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The five-phase elections will start from October 12 and will be ending on November 5. The other dates of polling are October 16, 28 and November 1. The counting of votes is scheduled to take place on November 8 and the whole election process will be completed by November 12.

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A pre-poll survey which was conducted by Lokniti- CSDS in the last week of September shows NDA would achieve 42 percent votes and the Grand Alliance would end up with 38 percent resulting in clear advantage to BJP-led NDA over Grand Alliance by a margin of at least 4 percent.

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“The Power generation in Bihar with its own plants is at position zero and the case is same with the generation capacity,” says Goyal.

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