After two months of non-stop election campaign, Sunday is the judgment day in the Battle of Bihar. The big question is that whether it will be the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance or the Mahagathbandhan of the Janata Dal United-Rashtriya Janata Dal-Congress combine, that will come out triumphant.
While the NDA's campaign was spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, RJD chief Lalu Prasad and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, too, left no stone unturned to maximise their chances of winning the polls.
A win for the Mahagathbandhan will get its first BJP led government. The fate of 3450 candidates including 272 women will be decided.
NDA went into the electoral fight without a local face with Modi as its mascot while Mahagathbandhan projected Nitish Kumar as the CM candidate. The sparks started flying from July itself when Modi addressed his first rally in the state in Muzaffarpur where he alleged that there was something wrong with Nitish Kumar’s DNA. This led to a fierce war of words between the two rivals with Nitish supporters flooding Modi’s residence in Delhi with samples of their hair and nails for DNA test.
Mahagathbandhan banked on the Muslim-Yadav combine of Lalu, Kurmi-Koeri (Kushwaha) and extremely backward castes along with Mahadalits of Nitish and a chunk of upper castes still with the Congress. It is also hopeful of getting g the neutral voters on its side due to Nitish Kumar's image.
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