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Time of India
3 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Bihar Elections 2025: Opposition alliance prepares welfarist bouquet and 'Bihari pride' pitch against NDA
Bihar's INDIA bloc is strategizing to challenge the NDA in the upcoming assembly elections. The opposition plans to highlight social justice issues, promise welfare schemes, and appeal to Bihari pride by alleging Delhi's interference and voter disenfranchisement. A joint campaign will launch on July 9, addressing SIR, supporting trade unions, and unveiling a manifesto with guarantees for various social groups. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads The RJD-led Opposition INDIA bloc in Bihar is planning a two-pronged plan to take on the ruling NDA in the year-end Bihar assembly election by projecting a larger social justice plank, including a bouquet of promises of welfarist schemes It is also rallying a political fight by appealing to the 'Bihari pride' of the electorate by alleging "Delhi's proxy rule in Patna" and by citing a deep-rooted conspiracy to "manipulate" the state's electoral system through "disenfranchisement" of many genuine Bihari voters through Special Incentive Revision (SIR) by the ECI, Opposition sources said. Top leaders of Bihar's INDIA bloc, including Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav and Left leaders, will launch their joint ground state-wide 'chakka jam' campaign in Patna on July 9, which, besides attacking SIR, will also be in solidarity with all-India strike of central trade unions on the same day on issues of workers and farmers. The Opposition leaders of Bihar said they will be unveiling, closer to polls, a joint manifesto, promising a slew of welfarist "guarantees", including vows to dole out monthly allowances for women, unemployed youth and incentives for poor children should the INDIA bloc form the next government. They are also working on a free health insurance cover for all families of Bihar, besides enhancing pension schemes for vulnerable social Opposition is also working to offer special employment generation schemes as its remedy to curb the large-scale migration of poor Biharis in search of jobs. "While INDIA bloc of Bihar will come out with a common 'vachan patra' (document of promises) on social guarantees, individual parties of the alliance may come out with their respective manifestos," said a leader of Bihar Opposition alliance.
Time of India
7 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Opposition mulls legal course, mass stir against SIR of electoral roll in Bihar
The RJD and Congress on Thursday indicated that Opposition parties were exploring options, including moving the court and mobilising a mass agitation against the(ECI's proposed Special Incentive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in poll-bound Bihar. The Congress said it has "lost all faith in the ECI brass" after Opposition leaders' deliberations with them on the SIR issue a day earlier. They claimed that CEC Gynesh Kumar told them that at least "20% of the Bihar voters will be out of" the rolls after the SIR. "The Opposition leaders' meeting with the ECI brass on SIR was not a cordial one. Now, the Opposition leaders are in the process of discussing the future course. All options, including legal recourse, are being discussed," RJD MP Manoj Jha told ET. Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said at a presser that "all options are are in discussions with our INDIA bloc allies and experts". He stepped up the attack on the poll body by accusing the ECI brass of behaving like "bicholia" (middleman) of the government. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like ¿Quieres un segundo ingreso? Prueba Amazon CFD (Inicia hoy) TradeLG Haz clic aquí Undo
