Union Home Minister Amit Shah framed the Bihar polls as a choice between development under the Modi–Nitish alliance and a return to “jungle raj” under the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan, addressing rallies virtually in Gopalganj, Samastipur, and Vaishali due to bad weather. He backed the nationwide voter-roll Special Intensive Revision and said infiltrators would be removed, while pitching the NDA’s manifesto as future-shaping for Bihar’s farmers and women.
In Begusarai, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi countered that the so-called double-engine government is effectively a “single engine” controlled from Delhi, alleging that neither people nor CM Nitish Kumar are truly heard. She accused the BJP of avoiding present-day issues like jobs and migration, criticized “vote deletion” claims under roll revisions, and asked why promised employment wasn’t delivered in the past two decades of NDA rule.
Key themes from both stages included governance credibility, employment, migration, and the integrity of the voter rolls issues likely to dominate the final stretch of campaigning before Bihar votes on November 6 and 11, with counting on November 14.
