Bihar Polls to Be Held in Two Phases; Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha Predicts Big NDA Win

By A Staff Reporter

Patna: The Election Commission on Monday announced that the Bihar Assembly elections will take place in two phases on November 6 and November 11. The announcement came as major political parties gear up for an intense electoral contest in the state.

Reacting to the development, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha welcomed the schedule and described the upcoming polls as a “festival of democracy” to be celebrated with “purity and transparency” after Chhath Puja. “The announcement that the EC made, after the Chhath Puja, with all purity and transparency, the festival of democracy will be celebrated in Bihar. It would be a model for the country,” Sinha said in a statement posted on social media.

He added that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had already finalised its seat-sharing arrangements internally and would announce them at an appropriate time. Expressing confidence in the ruling alliance’s prospects, Sinha predicted a sweeping victory for the NDA. “The NDA is going to win the election with a big margin, records will be broken,” he asserted.