Bihar Assembly Election:Final phase of polling ends

The third and final phase of Bihar assembly elections has come to a close with the 78 constituencies that went to polls on Saturday. According to the Election Commission on India said 55.22% voters cast their votes till 5.00 p m. Voting also held for the Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat, where a by-election was necessitated by the death of JD(U) MP Baidyanath Mahato. COVID protocols were strictly followed during the conduct of polls. 

As voting has concluded, all eyes are now on November 10 when the result of the elections held across 243 assembly constituencies of Bihar will be announced. While the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by chief minister Nitish Kumar is looking to retain another term, the Grand Alliance led by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav is also confident of a win in the state.

Some of the prominent candidates in this phase are the BJP's Niraj Kumar Singh in Chhatapur seat, cousin of actor Sushant Singh Rajput; Congress's Bihariganj candidate Subhashini Sharad Yadav, daughter of former Union minister Sharad Yadav and Janata Dal United's Sarairanjan candidate Vijay Kumar Choudhary, who is also the Bihar assembly Speaker.