Bihar Election 2025 Live Updates: Who's Your CM Face? INDIA Bloc Snaps Back At NDA, Draws Parallel With Maharashtra

"We have vision, reason and blueprint. We have an undying passion. We have a new mindset - one that brings everyone together. We have to build a new Bihar. Amit Shah and BJP did not make it clear who would be the CM face of NDA. They should make it clear...People of Bihar want change and want to build a new and developed Bihar...Mukesh Sahani has been announced (as the Deputy CM face), we will include others from different communities too as the Deputy CM. We will tell you when the time comes," CM Tejashwi Yadav told reporters on Thursday.

"We want to ask Amit Shah ji and the president of their party who is the CM face of your alliance? This is our demand because we saw that the election was fought under the leadership of the then CM Eknath Shinde, but later we found out that someone else was chosen as the Chief Minister," said Congress observer for Bihar elections, Ashok Gehlot, while addressing the Mahagathbandhan press conference.

As he leaves after the Mahagathbandhan joint press conference, Bihar Congress chief Rajesh Ram said, "You don't get confused. Voters are on the right path."

Meanwhile, amid growing speculations of internal disagreements, the Mahagathbandhan alliance is yet to finalise its seat-sharing arrangement.

"Tejashwi khud Bihar sarkaar nahi chalaega balki poora Bihar milkar Bihar sarkaar chalane ka kaam karega. Tejashwi CM banega toh saath mein sabhi Bihar ke log CM banenge..." RJD leader and Mahagathbandhan's CM face, Tejashwi Yadav said while addressing the presser.

RJD leader and Mahagathbandhan's CM face, Tejashwi Yadav assured that no family will be without a government job if he comes to power in Bihar.

"I would like to say this confidently that not 5 years, if the people of Bihar give us 20 months, Tejashwi and our Govt will complete in 20 months what these people did not do in 20 years. We have pledged that there will be no family without a Govt job," said the RJD leader.

CPI(ML) leader Dipankar Bhattacharya dedicated the upcoming election in Bihar to the youth, farmers, women, and the poor.

"The people of Bihar have been waiting for the elections for a long time. This election is for the youth, farmers, women, and the poor... We want to assure the people that Bihar is ready... This Mahagathbandhan will fight unitedly to win the election," Dipankar Bhattacharya said at the Mahagathbandhan press conference.

At the Mahagathbandhan press conference, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav highlighted the "injustice" being done to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in the NDA.,

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"We, the people of Mahagathbandhan, do not just want to form the govt or become the CM, but we want to make Bihar, that is why we are together... I thank all the members of the Mahagathbandhan for showing trust in me. I want to tell all of them that I will do everything possible to live up to your expectations and together we will throw the 20-year-old government that is currently in power," RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said, thanking the alliance.

Bihar Election 2025 will be held in two phases, on November 6 and 11. The results will be announced on November 14 by the Election Commission.

VIP chief Mukesh Sahani has been announced as the Deputy CM face of Mahagathbandhan for Bihar Election 2025. 

Earlier, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya attributed the delay in deciding Mahagathbandhan's seat-sharing arrangement to accommodating Mukesh Sahani's Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), noting a lack of unity within the alliance on several constituencies.

Former Bihar Deputy CM and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav announced as Mahagathbandhan's CM face for Bihar Assembly Election 2025.

Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot said, "All of us sitting here have decided that in these elections, we support Tejashwi Yadav as the CM face"