Bihar Assembly Polls 2010

The five-year term of the JD(U)'s Nitish Kumar-led government will come to an end in 2010 as Bihar gears up for elections in 243 Assembly constituencies.

The Election Commission of India has decided to hold the 2010 Bihar Assembly polls in six phases. The voting will be held through Oct 21 to Nov 20, 2010. The counting of votes will be held on Nov 24, 2010 and the results are expected on the same day.

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The usual political battle ahead of the polls has already begun with the main contenders - Janata Dal(United), Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - exchanging bitter words.

While Congress hopes to single-handedly claim majority, BJP has stitched up an alliance with JD(U). As per the seat sharing formula finalised by the NDA partners for 2010 state elections, JD(U) has 141 seats and BJP 102.

Currently, the JD-U has 81 sitting legislators and the BJP 54. The seat sharing arrangement formulated in 2005 alloted 138 seats to JD(U) while BJP got 103.

The polls are expected to be a closely fought battle between Nitish Kumar's JD(U) and Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD. While Nitish Kumar has no intentions of grabbing the Chief Minister's post again, his political rival and former Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has been projected as RJD's CM candidate.

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