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Amit Shah to build tempo for PM's April 25 Darbhanga rally

PATNA: The BJP is all set to launch an intense campaign in the five constituencies going to the polls in the fourth phase on April 29. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also scheduled to address an election rally at Darbhanga, one of the five constituencies going to the polls in the fourth phase, on April 25. The other four constituencies are Ujiarpur, Samastipur, Begusasrai and Munger.




“Star campaigners of BJP will start campaigning in these five constituencies from Monday onwards,” state BJP spokesman Nikhil Anand said.

“BJP national president Amit Shah will address three separate rallies at Munger, Begusarai and Ujiarpur on April 24. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath will also address a rally at Begusarai on April 26,” Anand added.

From the BJP’s point of view, Shah’s election tour is expected to build the tempo for the PM’s rally at Darbhanga on April 25 in favour of the party’s lone Maithil Brahmin face Gopaljee Thakur. The PM’s Darbhanga visit is considered important as its sitting MP was Kirti Jha Azad, also a Maithil Brahmin, who was suspended from the party on the ground of indiscipline. Jha is now with the Congress.

“Winning the Darbhanga seat won’t be a cakewalk for us as Thakur is pitched against RJD heavyweight Abdul Bari Siddiqui,” said a state BJP leader.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari and CM Nitish Kumar are also slated to campaign for NDA candidates at Darbhanga, Madhubani and Muzaffarpur on April 22 and 23.

In Ujiarpur, state BJP president Nityanand Rai is in fray against Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) chief Upendra Kushwaha.

The Begusarai seat, known as the ‘Leningrad of Bihar’, has acquired a value of its own, as the BJP’s firebrand leader and Union minister Giriraj Singh is pitched against former JNUSU president and CPI nominee Kanhaiya Kumar and RJD candidate Tanveer Hasan, who was the first runner up in the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

In Samastipur, sitting MP and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan’s younger brother Ram Chandra Paswan is fighting against Congress’s Ashok Ram. “Although the BJP’s star campaigners are not scheduled to hit the ground at Samastipur, Shah’s rally in neighbouring Ujiarpur will do the trick for Paswan,” a BJP source said.

In Munger, JD(U) nominee and minister in the Nitish Kumar government Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh is in fray against Neelam Devi, wife of Mokama strongman and independent MLA Anant Singh. Lalan Singh is no stranger to the hilly, diara and forest terrains of Munger, as he was elected to the Lok Sabha from here in 2009.

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