Bihar Assembly Elections 2020
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Bihar elections: At 57.58%, provisional turnout in third phase exceeds polling in first two rounds
•The final voter turnout in the first phase of polling held on 28 October was 55.68 percent, while it was 55.70 percent in the second phase held on 3 November
Bihar Assembly Election 2020 Voting Updates: 876 cases of MCC violations, Rs 66.84 cr seized during entire election, says EC
Fp Staff •Bihar Assembly Election 2020 Voting Updates: Deputy Election Commissioner in-charge Chandra Bhushan Kumar said that there were 156 cases of violation fo COVID rules while 52,000 voters over 80 years and persons with disabilities voted using postal ballots.
Bihar Election 2020: 56.59% polling recorded till 6 pm; brother of jailed Bittu Singh killed by assailants in Purnia
Fp Staff •Meanwhile, Neeraj Kumar Jha, an independent candidate from Benipatti constituency, succumbed to COVID-19 today as the seat in Madhubani area continues to vote in the third and final phase of Assembly election
Bihar Election Phase 3 today: Voting for 78 seats begin; a look at key candidates, parties and important protocols
Fp Staff •The final phas is likely to be a real test for the ruling alliance of the NDA, the Grand Alliance as well as the six-party Grand Democratic Secular Front
Bihar Elections: Marooned by caste, born poor, children of Dalits turn recruits for touts trafficking migrant labour
Devparna •Treated as outcasts and born to poor families, children of Dalits in Bihar stare at a dark future with little help from the government forcing a community no longer charmed by Nitish Kumar to accept harsh realities.
'Khaali haath, khaali jeb, khaali pet': Ahead of Bihar polls, Nitish Kumar govt faces ire of intra-state migrants
Devparna •The 32 lakh returning migrants joined the existing pool of intra-state migrants, who were already struggling to find jobs, only deepening the unemployment crisis.
Bihar poll campaigning concludes: From Nitish's 'last election' remark, Modi's open letter to Rahul's MVM jibe
Fp Staff •Around 2.35 crore people will vote in the third and final phase of the Bihar Assembly election scheduled to be held on 7 November
Bihar Assembly Election 2020 Voting Updates: Elections peaceful, 53.51% voter turnout recorded, confirms EC
Fp Staff •Bihar Assembly Election 2020 Voting Updates: Deputy Election Commissioner Chandra Kumar Bhushan said polling had now been done at 165 out of 243 constituencies and the seizures till Tuesday morning amounted to Rs. 65.22 crores
Bihar polls: BJP's free COVID-19 vaccine promise not violative of model code of conduct, says EC
•The complainant, RTI activist Saket Gokhale, had alleged that BJP's poll promise for Bihar was discriminatory and misleading as India's vaccine policy had not been announced yet
EC observers say no repolling needed in 71 seats that went to polls in phase one of Bihar Assembly election
•EC's general observers conducted post-poll scrutiny of all the 71 seats in the presence of candidates/political parties and concluded that the polling process was completed on poll day peacefully