Overview
- Ravi Shankar Prasad said the NDA is set to win Bihar, forecast the Congress’s worst showing in the state, and argued voters trust Nitish Kumar’s record on law and order, infrastructure and welfare.
- Ajay Alok asserted there is “no confusion” on Nitish Kumar leading the alliance, credited Chirag Paswan’s return for a projected vote share above 54%, and highlighted the Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls.
- The BJP defended ₹10,000 payments to 1.4 crore women as budgeted empowerment measures, while dismissing the Opposition’s job-for-every-household promise as fiscally untenable.
- The campaign has tilted toward a national face-off between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, with the BJP filing a complaint over Rahul’s remarks as the party seeks to keep the focus on national leadership.
- Opposition parties counter that Nitish will be sidelined after polling, with Akhilesh Yadav alleging bias in the voter-roll exercise, as the INDIA bloc fields Tejashwi Yadav and the RJD downplays Lalu Prasad’s visibility.