Vikrant Shekhawat : Sep 26, 2020, 10:18 AM
Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Friday welcomed the announcement of the schedule of theBihar Assembly elections, saying his party was ‘assured’ as people want to get rid of the incumbent state government.Yadav further said chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) does not matter and the RJD’s fight is with Kumar’s ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).He also remarked sarcastically that “JD(U) does not matter in the election”.“We welcome the decision of Election Commission. We are assured as people of Bihar want to get rid of this government. JD(U) does not matter in the election, our fight is against BJP,” news agency ANI reported RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav as saying.Yadav was Bihar’s deputy chief minister under Kumar before the RJD-JD(U) alliance collapsed in July 2017, paving way for the BJP to join hands with Kumar and form a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in the state.Notably, elections in Bihar will be conducted in three phases with the first phase of polling for 71 constituencies in 16 districts to be held on October 28, the second phase for 94 seats in 17 districts on November 3 and the remaining 78 seats in 15 districts on November 7.Meanwhile, with the model code of conduct for assembly elections 2020 in place in Bihar, both the ruling and opposition parties are claiming they will win a three-fourth majority in the House.