Patna: The ruling NDA and the opposition Grand Alliance are locked in a neck-and-neck fight as early trends for 125 seats of the 243-member Bihar Assembly have become available. The NDA is leading in 63 seats — BJP (33), JDU (25), and the VIP in five seats — while the Grand Alliance is ahead in … Read more
New Delhi: Over 55 per cent voter turnout was registered in phase three of the Bihar assembly elections on Saturday with the Election Commission noting that the figures are likely to go up later in the evening. Deputy Election Commissioner Chandra Bhushan Kumar, who is in charge of Bihar, told reporters in the evening that … Read more
New Delhi: Out of 1,195 candidates contesting in phase-3 of the Bihar assembly elections later this week, 31 per cent have declared criminal cases against themselves, according to a report by poll rights group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). About 282 or 24 per cent have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. Serious criminal cases … Read more
By Rahul Verma Elections are a high-stake game in democracies like India and, thus, it is natural that all of us obsess over who will win how many seats. Everyone has their favourite technique of making predictions: some look at pre-poll surveys, election junkies try to find patterns through historical data, journalists and academics travel … 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
NEW DELHI: In its most direct attack on the Lok Janshakti Party, the BJP on Friday accused its president Chirag Paswan of trying to create a confusion by harping on his equations with senior leaders of the saffron party, and asserted that it had no relations with the LJP. Paswan has been lauding the BJP … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Oct 12, 2020) NEW DELHI: The NDA alliance is likely to emerge as the clear favourite to win the Bihar assembly elections by securing 160 of the 243 seats, according to an opinion poll released by Times Now-CVoter on Monday. The survey, conducted on all 243-assembly seats of the … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) on Sunday virtually walked out of the National Democratic Alliance in Bihar ahead of the state assembly polls, saying that it will not fight the election under JD(U) president and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar‘s leadership of the ruling alliance in the state, LJP sources said. An LJP parliamentary … Read more
New Delhi: Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Chirag Paswan on Saturday sought people’s “blessings” for his party’s “Bihar first Bihari first” vision document in yet another indication that it may not fight the state assembly polls as part of the National Democratic Alliance. In a statement, he heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and … Read more
New Delhi: The Congress screening committee for Bihar held its first meeting on Thursday and decided to field seven sitting MLAs in the upcoming assembly polls, sources said. The Congress on Wednesday had held internal discussions over the distribution of party tickets and sharing of seats other parties. Among those who participated in the meeting … Read more