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It’s polling day in Bihar! As many as 121 seats are voting in the first phase of the Assembly elections today. RJD leader and the Opposition’s CM face, Tejashwi Yadav, is in the fray, aiming for a hat-trick in Raghopur. Other key contests include: Independent candidate and Tejashwi’s estranged brother, Tej Pratap Yadav (Mahua); Deputy CM and BJP leader Samrat Chaudhary (Tarapur); BJP’s cultural pick, folk singer Maithili Thakur (Alinagar). Follow live updates .

In the last Assembly polls, RJD led with 42 seats, followed by BJP with 32. But the 2024 Lok Sabha elections flipped the trend — NDA allies (BJP, JD(U), LJP-RV) outperformed RJD.

A new challenger, Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party, is hoping to shake things up. Once a strategist, Kishor is now in the arena hi

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