Bihar braces for election results today as a buoyant oppn, led by Tejashwi Yadav, and a hopeful NDA under CM Nitish will look to cross majority mark of 122 in 243-member assembly.
Counting for Bihar's 243 assembly seats stretches late into the night. BJP & RJD's vote share remain neck-and-neck, but trends show NDA has crossed halfway mark. Here are the day's updates.
Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, who spent 10 days campaigning in Bihar, is not just an expert in the Urdu poetry but has also read the Quran.
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has announced these polls will be his last but that has hardly rocked his party, unlike in 2014, when workers protested vociferously against his then decision to quit.
According to the Election Commission, the poll percentage at 1 pm was 34.82, higher than the corresponding figures for the first phase (33.10) and the second phase (32.82) of polls.
Congress’s Maskoor Usmani is contesting from Jale seat in Darbhanga, where Yogi Adityanath & JP Nadda campaigned in last 2 days, claiming credit for Ram Mandir, Article 370 removal.
Until now, units operating even in recognised industrial areas needed a separate factory licence. The move is expected to especially give a boost to small and medium enterprises.
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