NEW DELHI: There was no mismatch between the voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) counts and the votes recorded by electronic voting machines in the Bihar assembly election held last month, the Election Commission said on Wednesday. The VVPAT slips were counted in 1,215 randomly-selected polling stations of Bihar to match with the votes counted … Read more
Sasaram: Sasaram, a stronghold of the BJP for long, appears headed for a triangular contest between the RJD, BJP-JDU and LJP in the upcoming Assembly election following Ashok Kushwaha’s move to JDU from the RJD, and Rameshwar Chaurasia’s switch to LJP from the BJP. The RJD candidate for the poll is Rajesh Sahu. Although the … Read more
PATNA: Bihar’s opposition Grand Alliance has hammered a seat-sharing deal for the upcoming assembly elections in the state and a formal announcement on the allotment of seats among the partners is expected to be made here on Saturday evening, sources said. The seat-sharing exercise gained pace after RJD supremo Lalu Prasad‘s emissary Bhola Yadav returned … Read more