Haryana CM, other BJP bigwigs all set to spice up Bihar poll campaign

As the campaigning enters the last leg in the poll-bound Bihar, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and other BJP bigwigs are all set to boost the NDA's prospects with a number of rallies and public meetings.

With the first phase of polling slated to be held on November 6, and November 4 being the last day of campaigning for the first phase, the saffron party is pulling out all stops to woo the voters, especially those who work in Haryana, and have votes in Bihar.

54 senior leaders on ground

We have deputed 54 senior leaders, including ministers and senior party functionaries to campaign in Bihar of which over 25 were already in there in the state. We are getting tremendous support from the Bihari voters and the NDA would form the government again in Bihar on the strength of its development agenda. -- Mohan Lal Badoli, BJP chief

“We have deputed 54 senior leaders, including ministers and senior party functionaries to campaign in Bihar. Over 25 of them are already in there in the state. We are getting tremendous support from Bihari voters. The NDA would form the government again in Bihar on the strength of its development agenda,” BJP state chief Mohan Lal Badoli told The Tribune.

Saini will again hit the campaign trail in Bihar next week while the poll schedule of other senior leaders, including union and state ministers, is being finalized, a senior party leader said adding that thousands of Bihari migrants working in Haryana, who are voters in Bihar, are being closely ‘tracked’ by the party leaders.

Meanwhile, senior leaders, including Union minister Krishan Pal Gurjar, state ministers Vipul Goyal, Rao Narbir Singh, Krishan Kumar Bedi, Gaurav Gautam and Rajesh Nagar, besides MLAs and former ministers, are already camping in Bihar.

Bihar in-charge's Haryana link

Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who has been named as the election in-charge for Bihar by the BJP, has a Haryana connection. Pradhan, as the in-charge for the 2024 Haryana Assembly poll, has been credited with pulling off a virtually impossible hat-trick for the party.

Sources said migrants working in at least 12 Haryana districts, Faridabad, Gurugram, Ambala, Hisar, Jhajjar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panchkula, Panipat, Rewari, Sonepat and Yamunanagar, have already been contacted by the party leadership over several months.

The massive outreach started earlier this year when Bihar Diwas was celebrated across the state on March 23 in a bid to woo the voters. The outreach would culminate on October 28 on Chhath Puja when massive celebrations supported by the BJP would be organised across the state, sources said.