Overview

• Amit Shah wrapped up a two-day tour with zonal meetings in Sarairanjan and Forbesganj after a late-night strategy huddle in Patna focused on booth mobilisation and candidate planning.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana, transferring ₹10,000 each to 75 lakh women in Bihar in a ₹7,500-crore first tranche.
• Dharmendra Pradhan is the BJP’s Bihar in-charge with CR Patil and Keshav Prasad Maurya as co-incharges, as the party divides the state into five zones and deploys 40 ‘pravasi’ observers.
• State BJP leaders submitted screening committee reports while setting an aggressive goal of a two-thirds majority, with Shah urging unity and vowing to expel “infiltrators” if the NDA tops 160 seats.
• Opposition figures, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, criticised the cash transfers as a pre-poll inducement, even as the BJP frames the scheme as women’s empowerment.