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As campaigning ended connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025) for the archetypal signifier of the Bihar Assembly election, leaders of some the ruling NDA and the Opposition INDIA bloc went each retired successful their last entreaty to voters successful the 121 constituencies which volition spell to the polls connected November 26.
Both Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi held 3 rallies each connected a hectic last day, portion the INDIA bloc’s Chief Ministerial campaigner Tejashwi Yadav utilized a chopper to compression successful visits to 17 constituencies successful the last time of campaigning.
The NDA trotted retired the large guns with a slew of Union Ministers and BJP Chief Ministers portion harping connected a taxable of corruption and jungle raj if the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal returns to powerfulness successful the State. Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Yadav focussed connected Bihar’s unemployed youth, asking wherefore the NDA has failed to supply jobs contempt galore years successful powerfulness successful some the State and Centre.
Warning against ‘jungle raj’
Mr. Shah addressed 3 back-to-back nationalist meetings successful 3 antithetic districts — Darbhanga, East Champaran, and West Champaran — covering 9 Assembly constituencies. In Darbhanga, helium attacked the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), saying that Bihar has seen the jungle raj of ‘Lalu-Rabri’ for 15 years — referring to erstwhile Chief Ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and his woman Rabri Devi — and cipher wants to bring those days backmost again.
“Lalu ji did the fodder scam, land-for-job scam, edifice selling scam, bitumen scam, flood alleviation scam. Lalu-Rabri did truthful galore scams and Congress has done scams worthy ₹12 lakh crore. Can these radical bash immoderate bully for Bihar? Modi ji has ruled for 11 years and Nitish Babu has ruled for 20 years. There is not adjacent a 4 paisa allegation of corruption against Nitish Babu and Modi ji,” helium said, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Mr. Shah besides accused the INDIA bloc of conducting a Voter Adhikar Yatra to support “infiltrators”.
In Motihari, Mr. Shah warned that if immoderate mistake happens connected November 6, past kidnapping, ransom, and jungle raj volition instrumentality to Bihar. “Lalu-Rabri wants to marque their lad [Tejashwi Yadav] the Chief Minister, and Sonia ji wants to marque her lad [Rahul Gandhi] the Prime Minister. I privation to archer some of them that neither Lalu’s lad volition go the Chief Minister, nor volition Sonia Gandhi’s lad go the Prime Minister. In Bihar, Nitish ji is successful the Chief Minister’s chair, and successful Delhi, Modi ji is successful the Prime Minister’s chair,” Mr. Shah asserted.
‘Bihar’s improvement train’
BJP president J.P Nadda pushed a improvement communicative during his rally successful the Barhara seat, followed by a roadworthy amusement successful Gaya. “It took 20 years for Bihar’s improvement bid to get backmost connected track, and present this bid is moving guardant rapidly. Therefore, this predetermination is 1 that volition bring stableness to Bihar and link it with development. We person taken Bihar from lanterns to LEDs,” helium said.
“The NDA talks astir ‘development’, and these radical [the Opposition] speech astir ‘crime’. Wherever our authorities is formed, improvement happens there, not crime,” said Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who addressed 4 nationalist meetings successful the Raghopur, Fatua, Simri Bakhtiyarpur, and Tarapur constituencies.
Former Union Minister and Hamirpur MP Anurag Singh Thakur had a roadworthy amusement successful Bankipur, on with Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Arun Saw, portion Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma addressed a rally successful Siwan.
‘Jobs oregon reels’
Congress person Rahul Gandhi addressed 3 nationalist meetings successful the Aurangabad, Kutumba, and Wazirganj constituencies connected the past time of the campaign, appealed to Bihar’s younker to elector for authorities change, asking whether they privation jobs oregon societal media reels.
Even aft being successful powerfulness for 20 years, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has not done thing different than turning Bihar’s talented younker into labourers, forcing them to bash menial enactment crossed the country, helium said. Instead of talking astir reels, the Prime Minister should person spelt retired however helium volition supply employment, education, and amended healthcare to people, Mr. Gandhi added.
He claimed that Mr. Kumar is conscionable the disguise of the government, being manipulated by Mr. Modi and Mr. Shah. “His distant power is successful their hands, and they marque him enactment astatine their will, conscionable similar changing channels with a TV remote,” Mr. Gandhi said.
He accused the BJP of spreading the venom of hatred crossed the country. “India is the onshore of emotion and this state cannot beryllium tally connected hatred,” helium said, promising that the Opposition Mahagathbandhan would signifier an inclusive and typical authorities including the highly backward classes, backward classes, Dalits, Maha Dalits, minorities, and the wide class arsenic well.
The INDIA bloc’s Chief Ministerial face, Tejashwi Yadav, managed to code nationalist meetings successful 17 Assembly constituencies connected the last time of campaigning by utilizing a helicopter. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) person accused the JD(U) and BJP of ruining Bihar implicit the past 20 years and failing to tackle cardinal issues similar unemployment and migration.
