ByParty getting trainloads of voters from Bihar; say Patna will be built like Mumbai.On Thursday night, a special train from Patna pulled into the CST. The 16-coach train had 1,500 people from all over Bihar. This is not the usual influx of migrants which Mumbai notices on a daily basis but visitors from Bihar who were invited for a three-day city tour by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Mumbai-Bihar Cell workers.This unique measure was the brainchild of the BJP cell as the party has booked special trains from Patna to impress on the visitors, who are also potential voters in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, that the same kind of development will be replicated in Bihar if the BJP is voted to power with a full majority.Another aspect is to get these Bihar residents to meet their relatives in Mumbai and convince them to come back home to vote during the elections. The party and RSS functionaries and workers from Bihar are also a part of the group.On Wednesday, setting the stage for the biggest political battle this year, Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi announced that the Bihar assembly elections will be held in five phases between October 12 and November 5 — the results of which will be announced on November 8. As many as 6.68 crore voters in the state will vote on five days — October 12, 16 and 28, and November 1 and 5 — to elect the new Vidhan Sabha.On Friday, one group was taken to the Essel World Amusement Park in Gorai and another was taken for a sight-seeing tour at Dadar. As many as 25 Volvo buses are booked for the city tour. The group is scheduled to visit the Girgaum Chowpatty, Prabhadevi, Siddhi Vinayak, on Saturday and will leave for Patna on September 13.Though office bearers in both Mumbai and Patna denied this, sources in the party who are behind the initiative confirmed the plan, adding that more special trains are scheduled for trips in the weeks to come.“Our leaders said they will take us to Mumbai and show us how we will develop Bihar if the BJP is given a decisive mandate. We are also meeting our relatives here. We will try to convince them to come back home to vote for the elections. I met my brother-in-law and told him he must come and vote for the sake of his children’s future,” said a visitor who did not want to be named.Although Maharashtra BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari denied the party’s involvement in organising the tour, sources confirmed that the special train with the number 00201 was booked by the BJP workers form Patna to Mumbai CST. The train will be at the Mazgaon yard till its departure on September 13. A visitor also confirmed it is a party-sponsored tour.