Battle for Bihar: Rabri, Sadhu’s fate to be sealed today
Law Kumar Mishra, TNN, Oct 28, 2010, 01.33am IST
(GOOD WISHES TO BIHAR AND ITS 'JANTA'. MUST COME OUT AND VOTE SO THAT DEMOCRACY SERVIVE LONGER,AND MUST GIVE VOTE TO RIGHT CANDIDATE AND PARTY,WHO THINK AND WORK FOR THEIR WELFARE AND NOT JUST INDULGED IN CRIME AND CORRUPTION....VIBHA)
PATNA: More than 10 million voters of Bihar's 48 constituencies will vote amid heavy security bandobast to decide the fate of former CM Rabri Devi and her 'famous' brother Sadhu Yadav, among others, on Thursday.
Rabri, who is RJD MLA from Raghopur, is trying her luck from Sonepur as well. Her brother, who has since parted ways with her, is contesting from Gopalganj as a Congress nominee.
Others whose fate would be sealed in the third phase of six-phase polls in the state include ministers Brishan Patel, Renu Devi, Ram Pravesh Rai, Gautam Singh, Vyasdeo Prasad, BJP general secretary Janardan Segriwal and jailed JD-U MLA Munna Shukla's wife Annu Shukla.
Chief electoral officer Sudhir Kumar Rakesh on Wednesday said the administration is well prepared to hold the elections in these constituencies spread over West Champaran, East Champaran, Gopalganj, Siwan, Saran and Vaishali districts.
Though only some of the constituencies are "critical" owing to presence of Maoists there, armed forces will man all the 10,814 polling stations. Mounted police, river police and para military forces besides IAF choppers would patrol the areas going to the polls. Raids and searches have been on to prevent inflow of money and liquor in the constituencies, Rakesh said and added live webcast will be done from 293 polling stations.
The Congress and BSP have fielded candidates in all the 48 constituencies while Nationalist Congress Party has fielded 38 candidates, RJD 35, JD-U 24, BJP 24, LJP 13, CPI 10 and the CPM five nominees.
Of the 785 candidates, 65 are women with more than one women trying their luck from 18 constituencies. These include Patepur where four women are in the fray and Ramnagar, Bhore, Zeeradei, Marhaura, Vaishali, Maharajganj and Raghopur where three women each have thrown their hat in the ring.
Zeeradei and Marhaura have the highest number of 29 candidates each while the lowest number of seven candidates are in Raxaul.
The largest assembly constituency electorate-wise is Raghopur having 2.62 lakh electors and the smallest Kalyanpur with 1,77,368 voters.
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