Bihar election 2025 LIVE updates: Voting for Phase 1 of Bihar election began at 7 am. Among key candidates in the fray are Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Tejashwi Yadav, BJP debutant Maithili Thakur and deputy chief minister Samrat Chaudhary.
It seems to be a crucial triangular contest between Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (United) led-National Democratic Alliance, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Indian National Congress-led Mahagathbandhan (or Grand Alliance) and Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party.
Some of the prominent seats in this electoral battle are Tejashwi Yadav’s Raghopur; Mahua, from where his brother Tej Pratap Yadav is trying his luck with a new political outfit; and Tarapur, from where Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary is fighting the elections. The other seats in focus are Alinagar, from where singer Maithili Thakur is fighting the elections on a BJP ticket; Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha’s Lakhisarai; Mokama, where the JDU candidate is strongman Anant Singh, who has been arrested in the murder case of his opponent Dular Chand Yadav; and Raghunathpur, where the RJD candidate is late gangster-turned-politician Md Shahabuddin’s son Osama Shahab.
How many voters to vote today?
As many as 3.75 crore voters are eligible to vote during the first phase of 2025 Bihar assembly polls across the 121 constituencies. The voting will happen in as many as 45,341 polling stations, out of which 36,733 are in rural areas.Among the 3.75 crore voters, 10.72 lakh were ‘new electors’.
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