Bihar Assembly polls LIVE: High-voltage campaign, marked by personal attacks, divisive rhetoric, for Bihar polls phase 1 ends

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during the nationalist   gathering  organised for the Bihar Assembly elections, successful  Khagaria connected  Tuesday (November 4, 2025).

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during the nationalist gathering organised for the Bihar Assembly elections, successful Khagaria connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025). | Photo Credit: ANI

The high-voltage run for the archetypal signifier of the Bihar Assembly elections, covering 121 constituencies, ended connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025) evening, aft weeks of acrimonious exchanges, idiosyncratic attacks, and divisive rhetoric. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the blitzkrieg connected behalf of the ruling NDA, with arsenic galore arsenic 8 rallies, 2 of which were held connected the penultimate time of campaigning, too a roadshow successful Patna, and integer interactions with booth-level workers, and besides with women, connected the last time of electioneering. 

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Leader of the Opposition successful Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, besides held arsenic galore arsenic 7 rallies, the past 3 falling connected the concluding time of the campaign. 

The salient seats that volition spell to the polls successful the archetypal signifier are Tejashwi Yadav’s Raghopur, Mahua, from wherever his member Tej Pratap Yadav is trying his luck with a caller governmental outfit, and Tarapur, from wherever Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary is warring the elections.

The predetermination run was besides marred by a one-off, albeit high-profile, incidental of violence. Gangster-turned-politician Dular Chand Yadav, who had aligned with Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party, was allegedly killed successful a skirmish with supporters of Anant Singh, the JD(U) campaigner from Mokama.

Polling for the remaining 122 seats volition beryllium held connected November 11 successful the 2nd phase, and the votes volition beryllium counted connected November 14. 

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