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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday appointed Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan as the party in-charge for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections.

He will be assisted by two key party leaders as co-in-charge. The party has entrusted the responsibility upon CR Patil and Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya.

BJP's National General Secretary Arun Singh issued a press release appointing them with immediate effect.

The appointment comes at heels of reports that the Election Commission is most likely to announce the poll schedule in Bihar after October 6. The upcoming election will decide the fate of Nitish-led NDA, which has ruled the state for much part of this century. On the other hand, Congress has seen dry for the over the same period. 

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With campaign against the poll body and the BJP over alleged 'vote chori', the Congress is trying to solidifyting its ground. Congress is fighting alongside the RJD, which is eyeing to dethrone Nitish Kumar to make its leader Tejashwi Yadav as the new Chief Minister of the state.

There are 243 seats in Bihar and currently, two major alliances, led by Nitish and Tejashwi, are busy in crafting poll strategies and negotiating seat sharing formula with their allies.  

Despite two grand alliances fighting against each other, the polls are unlikely to become bipolar as Prashant Kishor, the poll-strategist-turned-politician, is all set to field contest on all 243 seats under the banner of his political front, Jan Suraj Party. Among other factors is Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM which will contest the upcoming Bihar elections.

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In last elections in 2020, AIMIM won five seats in Seemanchal region, but all of them joined the RJD in a short duration. This had ignited a political feud between Tejashwi and Owaisi.