With electioneering picking up in Bihar, the two main rivals have intensified their efforts to lure the voters in their favour. On Thursday the Bharatiya Janata Party unveiled its vision document promising a slew of measures to the Bihari voters with special focus on farmers, villages, youth, women and technology to deliver services a few days after Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal United leader Nitish Kumar announced his seven-point agenda to develop the state.
The electoral war has already taken over the hoardings in the state with both parties creating huge posters and plastering the state capital Patna and other major cities with the same. JDU was first off the blocks when huge posters with slogans and photos of Nitish Kumar came up in June. BJP leaders took some time to react but once they got their act together, the contest became more even.
Now, the Nitish Kumar’s posters have been replaced with new ones having the symbols of all the three parties of the Mahagathbandhan – JDU, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress. RJD chief Lalu Prasad, his wife and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi also find their photos on the posters.
The earlier posters of Nitish had only his photos without any mention of either the RJD or Congress. Moreover, the posters didn’t even have the election symbol of any party.
Never short of funds, BJP, which leads the National Democratic Alliance comprising of Lok Janshakti Party, Rashtriya Lok Samata Party and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) in Bihar, has also countered its rival by its own posters. The posters are dominated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in keeping with the BJP strategy of not projecting any leader as the chief ministerial candidate.
Some of them photos of BJP national president Amit Shah but Modi’s domination is complete with hardly any state leader being given prominence.
With the first round of voting on October 12, the poster war is set to intensify further. BJP leaders say they are coming up with new posters highlighting the important points of the vision document which was released by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
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