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EC won popular mandate as well
It was the fairest of fair poll which saw NDA sweeping to power in Bihar riding an anti-Lalu wave.
PATNA: It was the fairest of fair polls ever held in the country which saw NDA sweeping to power in Bihar riding an anti-Lalu wave.
And the credit goes to the "one-man-army" and adviser to the Election Commission K J Rao, who within a span of 11 months, has become a household name in the state.
It was for the first time in 20 years that no official on poll duty was killed.
Barring the Jehanabad jailbreak, which wasn't poll related, so peaceful were the elections that not a single landmine went off.
In fact, Rao improved upon upon his February performance. He remained unfazed by the volley of barbs from the RJD and Congress. He instead ensured that the polls were violence free.
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Such has been Rao's popularity among the commoners of Bihar that even an illiterate poor or a Dalit today has the confidence to walk up to him.
He air-dashed to almost all the violence-prone constituencies of the states and ensured that the administration remained neutral all through the process.
Apart from his daily chopper sorties, Rao even pillion rode on bikes, travelled by boats, walked long distances to reach remote and far-flung areas to see that things went as per the book.
He in fact, rode the pillion of a bike to monitor the arrest of Vijay Yadav, Jamui RJD nominee and brother of former Union minister of state Jai Prakash Narain Yadav, for threatening voters.
And the credit goes to the "one-man-army" and adviser to the Election Commission K J Rao, who within a span of 11 months, has become a household name in the state.
It was for the first time in 20 years that no official on poll duty was killed.
In fact, Rao improved upon upon his February performance. He remained unfazed by the volley of barbs from the RJD and Congress. He instead ensured that the polls were violence free.
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...
Such has been Rao's popularity among the commoners of Bihar that even an illiterate poor or a Dalit today has the confidence to walk up to him.
He air-dashed to almost all the violence-prone constituencies of the states and ensured that the administration remained neutral all through the process.
Apart from his daily chopper sorties, Rao even pillion rode on bikes, travelled by boats, walked long distances to reach remote and far-flung areas to see that things went as per the book.
He in fact, rode the pillion of a bike to monitor the arrest of Vijay Yadav, Jamui RJD nominee and brother of former Union minister of state Jai Prakash Narain Yadav, for threatening voters.
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