Nitish Kumar Still Bihar’s Favourite: ITG-CICERO Pre-poll Survey

Ahead of the Bihar Elections, here are the major takeaways from the ITG-CICERO pre-poll survey.

As Bihar gets all set to fight out the 2015 Assembly Elections, the fight over the 243 seats will be an ugly one, and it’s going to be an election to watch.

This is not an election for Bihar only, but of the country.
— Lalu Prasad Yadav, RJD Chief

The Election Commission announced that elections will be held in 5 phases from October 12 to November 5 and results would be announced on November 8.

As of now, this is how the Bihar Assembly seat break down stands:

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal-United (JD-U) has 115 MLAs, the BJP has 91, Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has 22, the Congress has 4 and the Lok Janshakti Party has 3, and 8 MLAs are listed as others.