In Bihar polls, RJD alleges lack of security for Tejashwi; writes to EC on 'ugly scenes'

As first phase of Bihar elections kicked-off on Wednesday, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) alleged that re was 'highly inequate security arrangement' me for Mahagatbandhan CM face Tejashwi Yav at his rallies.

RJD spokesperson Maj Kumar Jha, on Thursday, said that inequate security at Tejashwi Yav's rallies h resulted in 'anti-social elements' causing 'immense trouble and ugly scenes' at meetings and that despite making repeated requests to Election Commission, security h t been beefed up. 

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RJP spokesperson Maj Jha took to Twitter to share letter written to EC on 25 October requesting TV channels to t air rallies planned on 28 October in order to maintain to ensure 'level-playing field' and to t 'versely impact idea of free and fair elections'. 

RJD's request for more security comes after Tejashwi Yav faced issues with crowd during his rally at Lakhisarai on Sunday. As per reports, police h to use lathi-charge to disperse crowd following which Tejashwi Yav's rally was completed. Moreover, Tejashwi Yav targeted CM Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government in rally, holding him responsible for unruly crowd in RJD rally. 

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Mahagathbandhan's manifesto

Mahagathbandhan Chief Ministerial face Tejashwi Yav h earlier released joint manifesto of Mahagathbandhan and said that  main nda of Mahagathbandhan government will be to provide employment and stop migration of people due to unavailability of jobs. He reiterated his promise of providing 10 lakh jobs by signing process in his first cabinet meeting if he is elected as CM. Among or things,  manifesto promises to bring a law that can annul three farm laws passed by Parliament recently and states that Mahagathbandhan government will t treat "protesters or those criticising government as traitors" and will t name m in false cases. Similar promises have been me in RJD's manifesto also. 

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Bihar elections

Bihar Assembly has a strength of 243 members out of which 38 seats are reserved for SC and two for ST. In 2015 state polls, Mahagatbandhan comprising RJD, JD(U) and Congress won a whopping majority with 178 seats under leership of Nitish Kumar. On or hand,  BJP-led alliance won from only 58 constituencies. On July 26, 2017, Nitish Kumar stepped down as CM citing irreconcilable differences with RJD over corruption allegations against Tejashwi Yav and joined hands with its former ally BJP.

or two phases of Bihar election are on vember 3 and vember 7. EC has anunced that 7 lakh hand sanitizers, 46 lakh masks, 6 lakh PPE kits, 6.7 lakh face shields and 23 lakh pairs of hand gloves have been arranged for election. To observe COVID-19 prevention rms, each polling booth will have less than 1000 voters. To decongest polling stations furr, voting time has been increased by one hour. Thus, people will be able to cast ir votes from 7 am to 6 pm barring for areas affected by Left-wing extremism.  counting of votes will take place on vember 10. 

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