Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch his party’s Bihar poll campaign from Samastipur on Friday, the birthplace of socialist icon and former Bihar CM Karpoori Thakur, who was conferred the Bharat Ratna last year by the NDA government.

Modi, who will be accompanied by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar , will address another rally the same day.

The PM is scheduled to visit the state again on October 30 and November 2 and 3, before the first phase of polls on November 6. The first phase will witness voting for 121 of 243 Assembly seats in the state, where the JD(U)- BJP alliance hopes to retain power, while the Congress-RJD mahagathbandhan hopes to dislodge it. A new factor in the poll-bound state is the emergence of Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party.

The second phase of polls on 122 sea

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