As the counting for the Assembly polls in Bihar are scheduled for Friday, the leaders across the political spectrum of Bihar on Thursday held hectic parleys and reviewed last-minute preparations.
The recently concluded high-stakes Assembly polls will decide whether Nitish Kumar, the longest-serving chief minister, will get a record fifth term to form NDA Government or INDIA bloc’s CM candidate and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav will emerge as the CM.
Meanwhile, RJD leader and INDIA bloc’s CM candidate, Tejashwi Yadav said his party workers and the common people were ready to handle “any unconstitutional activity during counting”, while a lesser known RJD leader Sunil Kumar Singh threatened that a “Nepal-like situation” would be witnessed on the streets if “counting is halted, like in 2020”.
Speaking to reporters, Sunil Kumar Singh said, “People have voted for a change. Tejashwi Yadav’s Government will be formed in 2025. In 2020, the counting was halted for four hours, and if something like that happens this time as well, we will see a Nepal-like situation on the streets.”
Where the exit polls have been nearly unanimous in predicting a clean sweep for the NDA, the RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav rubbished these predictions and claimed Mahagathbandhan would form the Government with a thumping majority.
The BJP, on the other hand, said the RJD leaders’ remarks expressed their despair as the people, who have sealed their mandate in EVMs, have decided to give another term to the NDA.
Bihar witnessed a historic voter turnout of 67.13 per cent in the elections to the 243-member assembly in two phases on November 6 and 11.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission said that the counting of votes will begin at 8 am, and the trends and results are likely to start trickling in by 9 am.
