Patna (Bihar): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold three election rallies in Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, and Patna on Wednesday.
Voting for the first phase of Bihar assembly elections will be held on the same day.
The Bihar elections will be held in three phases -- October 28, November 3 and November 7-- and the counting of votes will be done on November 10.
This will be the second electoral visit of the Prime Minister to Bihar. He had plunged into campaigning for the three-phased state assembly elections on October 23 and addressed a series of rallies.
A report from Darbhanga said that senior officials of the Special Protection Group (SPG), who provide security to the prime minister, held meeting with Darbhanga district magistrate S M Thyagrajan to ensure COVID guidelines are followed at the rally venue.
Officials said that no one will be allowed inside the venue without face masks and people who will be on the dais with the prime minister have undergone RT-PCR tests.
NDA candidates from across the district will sit on a separate dais near to the main one, they said. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and BJP general secretary Bhupendra Yadav will be present on the occasion.
In Muzaffarpur, the prime minister's rally will be held at Motipur, around 30 km from the district headquarters. A limited number of chairs have been put in the field where the rally will be held.
The chairs have been placed inside circles marked at a distance from each other. In capital Patna, the public meeting will be held at the Veterinary College ground near the airport.
(With inputs from agencies)