The Bihar Legislative Assembly election was held in three phases through October–November. The term of the previous Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar ended on 29 November 2020. The incumbent National Democratic Alliance emerged as the winner with 125 elected MLAs, whereas the principal opposition coalition of Mahagathbandhan won 110 seats. Other minor coalitions and parties won 7 seats while only 1 newly elected MLA was an independent.
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The Bihar Legislative Assembly election was held in three phases through October–November. The term of the previous Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar ended on 29 November 2020. The incumbent National Democratic Alliance emerged as the winner with 125 elected MLAs, whereas the principal opposition coalition of Mahagathbandhan won 110 seats. Other minor coalitions and parties won 7 seats while only 1 newly elected MLA was an independent. The main issue was that of the jobs and the economy. There was also a significant anti-incumbency wave against Nitish Kumar, who has been CM for 15 years. Issues such as the lack of employment, alleged politicisation of flood relief in the aftermath of the 2019 Bihar floods and alleged inability of the state government to handle the COVID-19 pandemic are expected to be made an election issue by the opposition parties. The death of the former Lok Janshakti Party president and union cabinet minister, Ram Vilas Paswan on 8 October 2020 is also speculated to have an effect on the prospects of the competing parties. In the previous election, the alliance was led by the Bharatiya Janata Party alongside three smaller allies. In 2017, the Janata Dal Chief Minister Nitish. Kumar left the MahagATHbandhan and joined the National Democratic alliance. In 2018, the two of the partners left the alliance and the alliance joined by the Hindustani Morcha Party and the Vikhe. Insaan Insaan Party. The campaign faced problems with persistent attacks on theJanata Dal by the Lok Jannata Dal leader, Chiragwan Paswan.
Later, the opposition alliance was re-joined and held one seat in the legislature which was also held by the Vikhela Insan Party. In October 2020, the Vikela Insaani Party joined the alliance by the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party and Hindustan Awamcha, while the Hindusan Morcha party joined the opposition. In November 2020 the alliance won one seat and held the second seat. The alliance won a total of 243 seats in the legislative assembly. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years from the date appointed for its first sitting unless dissolved sooner. The current Bihar Legislative. Assembly is scheduled to end on29 November 2020 and the tenure of current Bihar. Legislative Assembly is scheduled to. end on 29 October 2020. The election is expected to take place in the last week of October 2020 with the first for 71 seats on 28 October2020. The second for 94 seats on 3 November 2020, and the third for the remaining 78 seats on 7 November 2020,. The counting of votes began on 10 November 2020 and the voting for the 243 seats began on 7 October 2020 with the results to be announced the next day. The election will be held in the first phase of the election on October 28 2020, with the second phase on October 31 2020. It will be followed by the third and the fourth phase of voting on October 30 2020.
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