Patna: Union home minister Amit Shah has called a high-stakes meeting in Delhi on September 3 to chalk out the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) strategy for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections.
BJP state president Dr Dilip Jaiswal, deputy chief ministers Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, union textile minister Giriraj Singh, and minister of state for home Nityanand Rai are among the leaders expected to attend. The discussions will focus on election preparedness and campaign coordination with the party’s allies.
The meeting comes days before prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bihar. On September 2, Modi will virtually hand over development projects worth crores, followed by a trip to Purnia on September 15 to inaugurate a new airport.
Meanwhile, NDA workers’ conferences are under way across Bihar, highlighting the Nitish Kumar government’s achievements and invoking memories of what leaders describe as the “jungleraj” of RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s era.
In the 2020 assembly polls, the NDA — comprising the BJP, JD(U), Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM (S) and Mukesh Sahni’s VIP — secured 125 of 243 seats, narrowly crossing the majority mark. The Mahagathbandhan had won 110 seats, with just a two per cent difference in vote share between the rival alliances.
