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
Patna: The ruling JD(U) on Thursday released its manifesto for the Bihar polls, promising progressive schemes under second leg of the ‘seven resolves’ of good governance in the next five years if it returned to power. Apart from outlining its future plans for the development of Bihar,Chief Minister Nitish Kumar led party also referred to … Read more
Days ahead of Bihar elections, CM Nitish Kumar congratulated JD(U) candidate from Jagdishpur Sushumlata Kushwaha, who gave birth to a healthy baby girl in Patna on Sunday. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar addressing an election meeting in Bhojpur on Sunday (Photo Credits: PTI) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced on Sunday that JD(U) candidate from Jagdishpur … Read more
PATNA: The list of JD( U) candidates for the Bihar assembly elections bears the unmistakable stamp of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has made a sagacious attempt to consolidate his extremely backward castes (EBC) support base while trying to make a dent into RJD‘s Muslim-Yadav combine. In accordance with the seat-sharing formula for the 243-member … Read more
A day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held a press conference to announce the NDA alliance’s seat-sharing formula, the Janata Dal-United on Wednesday released its list of 115 candidates for the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections. Ending days of intense speculation, the NDA on Tuesday announced its seat-sharing formula for Bihar assembly polls under which … Read more
Ending days of intense speculation, the NDA on Tuesday announced its seat-sharing formula for Bihar assembly polls under which JD(U) will contest on 122 seats and BJP 121 out of a total of 243 seats. BJP backed to the hilt Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as its leader in the state and rebuffed a rebellious Chirag … Read more
NEW DELHI: NDA ally Ramvilas Paswan-led LJP’s threat to field candidates against chief minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) in the Bihar assembly election has spiced up pre-poll discourse. The move, right when the RJD-led Opposition alliance is framing the contours of their seat-sharing formula, is being closely monitored for the multiple plots involved in it. Whether … Read more
New Delhi: Sharad Yadav might come back to the Janata Dal (United) fold before the Bihar assembly elections, people close to the former JD(U) national president said. Several senior party leaders including chief minister Nitish Kumar have called and spoken to Yadav in the last few days, paving the way for his return, they said. … Read more