The BJP's 283 Parivartan Raths (chariots for change) are hitting the remotest pockets of the state to counter the JDU's Badh Chala Bihar campaign - a brainchild of chief minister Nitish Kumar's campaign manager Prashant Kishore.

On an average, each vehicle covers a distance of around 30 to 40km daily and holds six to 10 public meetings. Each meeting lasts an hour, of which 24 minutes are devoted to audio-video clips, highlighting the achievements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government and firing salvo at the Nitish-Lalu Prasad combine.

A local leader addresses people from the raths for half-an-hour, which often turns into an interactive session. In the remaining six minutes, the party cadres distribute pamphlets consisting of 11 questions on Nitish and Lalu.

A month ago, BJP president Amit Shah had flagged off the Parivartan Raths. In the first phase, the vehicles have covered all the 243 Assembly constituencies holding around 26,013 public meetings. The party claimed that around 40 lakh people participated in the meetings.

Shah had flagged off 160 Parivartan Raths on July 16. Later, 83 more raths joined the fleet. Satyapal Narottam, a Patna High Court advocate and co-in-charge of BJP Parivartan Raths, said: "The party has appointed in-charge for every rath. They give feedback every day on the movement of raths, the number of meetings held in a day and the number of people attending them."

Narottam said the movement of the vehicles fitted with global positioning system and vehicle tracking system is monitored centrally from the party office also.

A team of 12 members, including some leaders from Delhi and Uttrakhand, has been looking after the entire rath management. State BJP general secretary Sanjeev Chaurasia has been monitoring their movement as well.

The Parivartan Raths aim to hold around one lakh public meetings in 100 days. They will move around the state till the model code of conduct comes into force to counter the JDU's Badh Chala Bihar campaign.

Though the JDU campaign came under the scanner of the high court, it has collected feedback in 40,000 villages. State JDU spokesperson Ajay Alok said: "As a part of Badh Chala Bihar campaign, feedback from around 40,000 villages have been collected. People's opinions were sought on the performance of the Nitish government in 10 years and people's expectations from the government in the next 10 years."

Experts in education, economics and social sector would go through the feedback and a vision document would be prepared. It would be released in two to three weeks.