Patna: Union Home Minister and former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah will begin a two-day tour of Bihar on Friday, amid heightened political activity ahead of the state assembly elections. The visit comes as parties, including the Congress, intensify preparations following recent strategic meetings.
Shah’s tour will cover multiple districts, with party meetings scheduled in Bettiah, Patna, Araria, and Samastipur. The first gathering will take place in Kumar Bagh, Bettiah, where around ten organisational districts are expected to be represented. Later on Friday, he will address the BJP’s online media wing at the state headquarters in Patna, bringing together office bearers from all 52 organisational districts.
On Friday evening, Shah will convene a meeting with 45 MPs and 45 MLAs from five states at Hotel Maurya in Patna. The visiting legislators, assigned responsibilities across various constituencies, have been deployed to counter anti-incumbency sentiments against the NDA. Representatives will come from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, and Jammu and Kashmir.
On Saturday, Shah will address district office bearers in Araria and Sarayranjan, Samastipur. In Araria, party workers from 49 assembly constituencies across ten districts will attend a meeting at the Barabanki airport grounds, approximately 30 kilometres from the district headquarters. In Sarayranjan, Shah will meet party functionaries from the Mithila and Tirhut regions for a conference and core group discussions.
Shah has already engaged with leaders from 20 organisational districts earlier this month. On September 18, he set ambitious targets at meetings in Dehri-on-Sone, Kaimur, and Begusarai, aiming for 80 seats in Shahabad and Magadh, where the NDA underperformed in the 2020 assembly and 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
