Overview

• Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupender Yadav and Baijayant Panda were appointed to lead campaigns in Bihar, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, with CR Patil and Keshav Prasad Maurya as Bihar co-incharges, Murlidhar Mohol for Tamil Nadu and Biplab Deb assisting in Bengal.
• Amit Shah began a two-day Bihar visit, addressing zonal meetings and chairing a closed-door session in Patna that sought booth-level reports and directed leaders to firm up candidate strategies and voter outreach.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana, transferring ₹10,000 each to 7.5 million women in Bihar in a single tranche totaling about ₹7,500 crore.
• Organisational planning in Bihar now centers on cadre mobilisation, manifesto work and coordination of senior leader visits, with Pradhan tasked to manage ticket distribution and resolve internal dissent.
• NDA seat-sharing talks are progressing with reports suggesting JD(U) could contest marginally more seats than the BJP, while in West Bengal the TMC condemned Biplab Deb’s co-incharge role, signaling a hard-fought contest ahead.