Overview
- Senior NDA leaders including JP Nadda, Nitish Kumar, Chirag Paswan, Jitan Ram Manjhi and Upendra Kushwaha jointly released the manifesto in Patna.
- The document promises one crore jobs across government and private sectors, upgrades district Mega Skill Centres into global hubs, and targets creating one crore ‘Lakhpati Didis’ with support of up to Rs 2 lakh.
- The alliance pledges Rs 10 lakh financial assistance for Extremely Backward Classes, a commission led by a sitting Supreme Court judge for EBC welfare, and aid for students from disadvantaged groups.
- Big-ticket projects include seven expressways, metro services in Patna plus four more cities, and ten new industrial parks, with additional pledges reported such as making Bihar flood-free within five years.
- The opposition’s ‘Bihar Ka Tejashwi Pran’ names Tejashwi Yadav as CM face and vows a law within 20 days to give one government job per family and Rs 2,500 monthly to women, as Bihar votes on November 6 and 11 with results on November 14 and with security tightened after a campaign-period killing.