NEW DELHI: In a first, the Bihar assembly polls this time saw no voting day deaths and no re-polling being ordered in any constituency.

In the past assembly polls, the state witnessed violence, deaths and re-election, official data shows.

Addressing party workers and supporters at the BJP headquarters here after NDA’s landslide win in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said gone are the days when elections in the state witnessed violence, booth capturing and repolls due to malpractices.

He noted that this time there were no incidents of violence in the state during polls, and the Election Commission did not have to order any repoll in any of the polling stations.

“Booth capturing, violence used to be a regular affair during ‘jungle raj’ in Bihar elections, but now no such case takes p

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