BJP sets target of winning three-fourth seats for NDA in Bihar assembly polls

Bihar BJP on Saturday set a target to win three-fourth of seats for NDA in assembly elections due in October-vember.

Stating target in presence of BJP national general secretary Bhupendra Yadav and ors, state party president Sanjay Jaiswal made an appeal to 76 lakh party workers upto Panchayat level to ensure that coalition achieves mark.

"We have set a target of winning three-fourth seats for NDA in Bihar. We will ensure that coalition achieves mark," Jaiswal said while addressing two-day state executive committee meeting that started Saturday.

National Democratic Alliance in Bihar comprises of BJP, Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) and Ram Vilas Paswans LJP.

Bihar has 243-member assembly.

Precautions have been taken for conduct of meet in midst of raging Covid-19 pandemic in state with only a handful of leaders including Bhupendra Yadav, Jaiswal and state ministers-Nand Kishore Yadav and Prem Kumar- sitting on dais in state headquarters.

Former Maharashtra chief minister and party's election in-charge for Bihar Devendra Fadnavis joined m virtually.

BJP's national president J P Nadda will give his valedictory speech Sunday.

caution in organising event comes in backdrop of its over two dozen leaders and workers testing positive at state headquarters in July in course of conducting regional meetings as part of election preparations.

Jaiswal praised both central and state governments for working toger for victims of floods and coronavirus especially migrant workers, who returned to ir home during pandemic from different parts of country.

He also lauded party workers for feeding poor and migrant labourers during lockdown apart from distributing essentials such as medicines, masks, besides organising blood donation camp among m.

Abolition of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir, paving way for construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya through a court verdict, annuling triple talaq for muslim women and providing citizenship to n-muslim mirities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan were among some of major decisions of Narendra Modi government, he underscored.

Assambly elections are due in state in October- vember and Election Commission has indicated it would go ahead with organising polls on time twithstanding concerns expressed by opposition parties and also by NDA partner LJP that it could lead to furr spread of coronavirus disease.

Bihar will be first state where election would be held amid pandemic that is raging in state as well in country.

BJP meet shows that saffron party is going ahead with its poll preparation in politically crucial state that sends 40 MPs to Lok Sabha.

executive committee of state was formed on March 20 last, but it could t hold any meeting till date due to Covid-induced lockdown enforced in Bihar on March 22 and subsequent nationwide shutdowns.

Addrressing meet, Fadnavis exhorted party leaders and workers to take developmental works done by both central and state governments to people.

"We need to tell people about various works done by both governments- be it Atmanirbhar ecomic pack, Garib Kalyan Yojana or work done by state government- as people forget m easily," Fadnavis said.

He, however, did t touch issue of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput death case which had triggered a bitter faceoff between his home state Maharashtra and Bihar, and instead kept his speech focused on political issues and elections.

Criticising 15 years of Lalu Prasad-led RJD rule in state which pushed Bihar 25-30 years back into backwardness, Fadnavis said, "people need to be reminded about time when state witnessed rampant corruption and nepotism and was ruined ecomically." " NDA government has brought change in Bihar in past 15 years and put development back on rails and w state will move faster in next five years and thats why it needs a government which can work in tandem with Narendra Modi government, said Fadnavis, who began his speech with his reverential salutation "Pranam" to people of Bihar. 

Im credits: PTI