Buoyed by its victory in Bihar Legislative Council polls, BJP announced a massive campaign for the state assembly election in which it plans to hold over 30,000 public meetings, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to hold a rally on July 25.
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 couple 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 galvanised 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.
PM Modi will hold a rally in Muzaffarpur on July 25. He 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 inputs from PTI)
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