Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani while addressing an election meeting in Bhagalpur district said that Nitish government in the state provided security to the common man and developed the state in a way that Bihar can compete with any other progressive state.In another meeting in the same district, LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan said, if voted to power, the RJD-LJP combine will ensure free education to children, besides taking care of the food needs of the poor people.