Patna, September 13: A fortnight-long campaigning for the bypolls in Bihar came to an end today with candidates launching one-to-one contact drive to mobilise votes in their respective constituencies.
Bypolls will be held in 11 assembly constituencies in Bihar in the second and final phase on September 15.
The star-campaigners for the opposition RJD were its supremo Lalu Prasad and his LJP counterpart Ram Vilas Paswan, who addressed several election meetings to mobilise support for the bypolls, which they claimed, would be a referendum on the functioning of the Nitish government.
The campaigning saw a bitter war of words between opposition leaders and the chief minister in the light of the summon issued by the Barh court against Kumar in connection with murder of Congress activist Sitaram Singh at Pandarak in Barh in 1991.
–PTI