Bihar set to vote in Phase 1 today, 3.75 crore voters to seal fate of 1,314 in fray

Around 37.5 million voters will exercise their franchise in the high-stakes first-phase of the Bihar assembly polls for 121 seats on Thursday to decide the fate of 1,314 candidates in the fray, including Opposition Grand Alliance’s chief ministerial candidate and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, deputy chief ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Polling officials carrying EVM machines and other election material leave from a boat to their respective polling stations on the eve of the first phase of the Bihar assembly election, in Patna on Wednesday, (Pappi Sharma (ANI))

The second-phase polling for the remaining 122 seats will be held on November 11 and the results will be declared on November 14.