Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed his first election rally for the current election season in Bihar, beginning with tributes for the late Ram Vilas Paswan and Raghuvansh Prasad. Coronavirus crisis in Bihar would have been worse had Chief Minister Nitish Kumar not "acted fast", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during an election rally in the state. "If Nitish Kumar government had not acted fast, Covid would have killed many more in Bihar," he said.