New Delhi: Poll-bound Bihar saw a full-force show of strength from the NDA on Friday, led personally by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, even as the opposition INDIA bloc appeared to lean almost entirely on RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on the ground.

Modi held back-to-back rallies in Samastipur and Begusarai and asked voters to give the BJP-led coalition a “record-breaking” mandate. The Prime Minister was flanked by key NDA allies, with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar sharing the stage along with Union ministers Chirag Paswan (LJP-R), Jitan Ram Manjhi (HAM) and Upendra Kushwaha (RLM), in what the BJP projected as a united front.

The NDA’s spread on the day went beyond the Prime Minister. Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed rallies in Siwan and Buxar. BJP president J P Nadda met “intellec

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