Speaking exclusively to News Nation, BJP's Patna Sahib candidate and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "This election is a battle of hope vs opportunism." On being asked about his rival from Patna Sahib, Shatrughan Sinha, Prasad said, "I won't take his name but will tell you one thing that he didn't ask a single question in the last five years in Lok Sabha." Prasad added, "Rahul Gandhi has taken politics to a new low of 'spit and run away."