Bihar Council results ‘signal’ for Assembly elections: BJP

BJP described the Council’s poll results, in which it alone won 11 seats out of 24 with the rival JD(U)-RJD combine pushed to second with just eight seats, as a defeat of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s reign of “corruption, crime and arrogance” and a “signal” of its victory in the assembly election. Results of <g data-gr-id="29">couple</g> of seats are still awaited.

The polling had taken place for 24 seats of the Legislative Council from local bodies on July 7 last.

Party spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said the victory has <g data-gr-id="31">galavanised</g> the NDA, which includes LJP, RLSP and Jitan Ram Manjhi’s outfit, and indicated that Modi in his campaign will announce a number of schemes to woo voters ahead of the assembly polls, likely to be held in September-October.

The BJP-led NDA will formally start its campaign from July 15 when it plans to hold a slew of public meetings across the state.

“The Prime Minister will give to people of Bihar a lot more than what they want. Modi ji is very fond of the state,” Hussain told reporters, adding that Modi will hold a rally in Muzaffarpur on July 25.

Modi is set to hold anywhere between 15 and 20 rallies in the state where the BJP has refrained from projecting any chief ministerial candidate.

With BJP pulling out all stops to score a victory in the assembly polls, whose results will be crucial to its political momentum after it was routed in the Delhi assembly election, Hussain said they have divided the state into four divisions with different leaders put in charge of each of them.