SHIMLA: The BJP’s victory in the Bihar assembly elections and bypolls in other states is a stamp by the public on “successful” COVID management by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said the party’s national president Jagat Prakash Nadda at Bilaspur’s Lehnu on Saturday. The BJP president is on a two-day visit to his home state. Recounting … Read more
Patna: The JD(U) has won the Hilsa assembly seat in Bihar just by 12 votes, according to the Election Commission website, a result contested by the rival RJD. According to the results updated on the Election Commission website late Tuesday night, JD(U)’s Krishnamurari Sharan alias Prem Mukhiya has polled 61,848 votes, while his nearest Atri … Read more
Regardless of who becomes chief minister, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is one of the clear victors of the Bihar assembly elections. He has almost single-handedly ensured that his party emerged as the larger party of the winning combination. This development forces us to face the paradox of people continuing to repose trust and faith in … Read more
New Delhi: With a win in five seats and leads in 11 others, the CPI(ML) is all set for an impressive performance in the Bihar Assembly elections whose results will be declared late on Tuesday. Inarguably the biggest gainer in the Grand Alliance, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) , often working in the margins … Read more
Seventy-eight assembly segments spread across 19 districts will go to polls in the third and final phase of assembly elections in Bihar on Saturday. These constituencies fall in north Bihar, the area bounded by the Ganga in the south. LJP, NDA’s constituent at the Centre, which has opted out of the alliance in the state, … Read more
PATNA: The stage is set for the second and, arguably, the most crucial of the three phases of Bihar assembly elections in which over 2.85 crore voters will decide the fate of nearly 1,500 candidates on Tuesday. Voting will take place on November 3 in 94 assembly segments, more than a third of the 243-strong … Read more
NABINAGAR/DINARA (BIHAR): Taking a swipe at his bete noire Lalu Prasad, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said during 15 years of RJD rule in Bihar except for anointing wife on the chief miniterial chair did the government do anything for the upliftment of women. He took an apparent dig at the young opposition leadership … Read more
New Delhi: As many as 91 constituencies in Bihar are learnt to have been designated as ‘expenditure sensitive’ by the poll panel less than three weeks before the state goes to polls to elect 243 members to the state assembly. Over 200 ‘expenditure sensitive pockets’ have also been identified in the poll bound state by … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday vowed to intensify the agitation against the three contentious farms legislation and has called upon BJP allies in the NDA, including Nitish Kumar-led JD(U), Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP of poll-bound Bihar and Dushyanat Chautala-led JJP, to come out of the NDA and join the agitation or face the fury … Read more
The bugle has been sounded for India’s first assembly election in the Covid-19 era. Despite deciding who governs almost 125 million people in Bihar for the next five years, the biggest multi-faith festival will remain like other celebrations since March — subdued, albeit in campaign method. While people are making prophecies about low turnout, voter … Read more