December 14, 2024 22:11 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Pushpa 2 stampede: Allu Arjun walks out of jail, actor's lawyer slams delay in release | Donald Trump intends to end 'inconvenient' and 'very costly' Daylight Saving Time | Suchir Balaji: Indian-origin former OpenAI researcher found dead at US apartment | Bengaluru techie suicide: Karnataka Police issues summons to wife Nikita, her family members | French President Macron appoints centrist leader Francois Bayrou as new Prime Minister | Congress always prioritised personal interest over Constitution: Rajnath Singh | Jaishankar calls attack on Hindus in Bangladesh 'a source of concern' | Allu Arjun arrested over woman's death in stampede during Pushpa 2 premiere show | RBI receives bomb threat in Russian language, case filed | UP teenager kills mother, lives with body for 5 days
Bihar Assembly Polls

Bihar Assembly polls: Vote counting begins, Tejashwi Yadav-led Grand Alliance takes early lead

| @indiablooms | Nov 10, 2020, at 02:15 pm

Patna: The grand alliance led by Tejashwi Yadav has taken early lead over National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) as counting of votes for the Bihar Assembly polls is currently going on Tuesday.

As per early trends, the RJD-Congress-Left 'Mahagathbandhan' is ahead in 69 seats while the incumbent JDU-BJP-HAM-VIP (NDA) alliance is leading in 53.

Nitish Kumar has been the CM of Bihar for the past 14 years.

Amid tight security vote counting started at 8 am.

Counting is taking place in 55 Centres spread across all 38 districts in the state.

All counting staff and officials have been directed to follow the guidelines of Election Commission to avoid the spread of Coronavirus infection.

Sources at the office of Chief Electoral Officer said that postal ballots would be counted first then counting of votes in EVMs would begin.

As per instruction of Election Commission, the maximum number of voters in a booth was fixed at 1000, leading to increase of the number of booths.

Accordingly, the number of EVMs also increased by 40 per cent which could delay in announcement of results. Earlier, the first result used to come by noon but this time it is expected by late evening or night.

NDA and Grand Alliance are two main power contenders while other newly floated fronts comprising smaller parties have also tried their best to be in important roles in the formation of the government in the post-poll scenario.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, leading NDA, has sought the blessings of the electorate to serve the state for another term while Tejaswi Prasad Yadav, CM face of Grand Alliance has appealed to the people to give him one opportunity, saying Nitish Kumar government has failed on all fronts in last 15 years.

The verdict of the people, sealed in EVMs during three-phase of assembly elections held on October 28, November 3 and November 7, would be known today.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.