Work is just half done

As it was the last day for the campaigning for the third phase of Bihar Assembly election, several important national and state-level leaders gathered at the state hanger of the Patna airport on October 26, 2010 to board their respective helicopters and fly out to attend different election meetings in different places of Bihar.

From top Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Singh Yadav, Congress Bihar unit president Mahboob Ali Kaiser, NCP leader Tariq Anwar, BJP leaders Shahnawaz Hussain, Rajiv Pratap Rudi, BJP Bihar unit president Dr CP Thakur, JD (U) national president Sharad Yadav, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad, former Indian Prime Minister and JD(S) chief HD Deve Gowda and JD (S) Bihar state president Dadan Yadav alias Dadan Pehalwan were seen at Patna airport on October 26, 2010.

Meanwhile, campaigning came to end in the 48 Assembly constituencies of Bihar on October 26, 2010 for the third phase of polling on October 28, 2010.

The ruling NDA and the RJD-LJP combine are locked in a neck-and-neck fight in the constituencies of East Champaran, West Champaran, Siwan, Gopalganj, Saran and Vaishali districts.

An electorate of 1.03 crore, including 47.56 lakh women, will decide the fate of 787 candidates prominent among them being former chief minister Rabri Devi.

Photos; Aftab Alam Siddiqui