Polling for the second and the most crucial phase of Bihar Assembly election on 94 constituencies spread across 17 districts slated on November 3 is likely to decide the electoral fate of prominent figures including chief ministerial candidates and seven serving ministers of the Nitish Kumar government in the state. Of the 94 seats at … Read more
Smriti Irani is among BJP’s star campaigner for the Bihar Assembly Elections. (PTI file photo) Smriti Irani, the Union Minister in the Narendra Modi cabinet, on Wednesday announced that she had tested positive for Covid-19 infection. The minister, via a post on her official Twitter handle, requested anyone who has met her in recent times … Read more
New Delhi: From the RJD promising to regularise nearly 1.5 crore contractual workers (Jeevika didis) and doubling their pay, to JDU substantially increasing the number of its female candidates and promising more representation of women in administration, and the BJP promising a `50,000 crore push to women’s self help groups, political parties in Bihar are … Read more
New Delhi: The promise of 10 lakh jobs by RJD’s CM candidate Tejashwi Yadav is emerging as a major point in the opposition’s campaign with the JDU and BJP feeling the need to counter the same. The latter have termed it an impractical proposition and questioned how the budget for the same will be provisioned. … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Oct 20, 2020) PATNA: Unbelievable it may sound in an otherwise poor state like Bihar, but records show that out 153 out of the 1,065 candidates in the fray in the first phase of state assembly election are crorepatis! The assembly election in Bihar is scheduled in three phases … Read more
By Mohan Sahay It is all about Nitish Kumar in the Bihar election. With the X-factor of Chirag Paswan in play, it is no longer certain that Kumar’s JD (U) would secure more seats than ally BJP. If that be the case, there could be a big question mark over Nitish Kumar staying on as … Read more
Patna: The Bihar government is trying to increase voter turnout in the upcoming assembly election without letting its guard down in the fight against Covid-19, a stiff challenge especially since public activities have increased because of election campaigning and the ongoing festive season. “Definitely festivals and elections increase public activities and these are bound to … Read more
On the numbers of seats NDA will win in the Bihar elections.We will win with a landslide victory. On Bihar getting a BJP CM.In this election, this question is not important. Even if the BJP gets more seats (than JDU) this time, Nitishji will be the CM. On LJP cutting into BJP’s and JDU’s votesThe … Read more
A day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that the NDA in Bihar constitutes just four parties and the LJP was its contender, the regional outfit’s president Chirag Paswan said on Sunday that the saffron camp leaders were hitting out at him under pressure from JD(U) boss and chief minister Nitish Kumar. Paswan also … Read more
Patna/New Delhi: LJP chief Chirag Paswan asserted on Friday he is Narendra Modi‘s “Hanuman” and that the prime minister lives in his heart. Paswan’s statement came on a day when he was excoriated by Union Minister Prakash Javadekar, who called the LJP leader a “vote Katua” (splitter of votes) and accused him of trying to … Read more