Bihar elections 2020: High-stake battle for NDA, Mahagathbandhan in second phase of polling | Explained
India TodayThe second phase of the Bihar Assembly elections is crucial for the fortunes of the National Democratic Alliance as well as the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan. The second phase of Bihar elections will take place at 94 seats spread across 17 districts. In 2015, the BJP had won just 20 seats of the 94 which goes to polls in the second phase of the Bihar elections. In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP alone had emerged victorious in Begusarai, Darbhanga, Madhubani, Maharajganj, Muzaffarpur, Paschim Champaran, Patna, Purvi Champaran, Chhapra and Sheohar seats which is 10 out of 17 districts going to polls in the second phase of the Bihar elections. Among the prominent candidates whose fate will be decided in the second phase of Bihar elections include RJD’s chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav contesting from Raghopur, his brother and former minister Tej Pratap Yadav from Hasanpur, and several ministers in the state government.