Bihar BJP cracks down on rebels, expels 9 leaders including those contesting on LJP tickets

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Patna: The BJP in Bihar on Monday expelled its nine leaders, including a sitting member of the outgoing assembly and two former MLAs, for entering the fray against official NDA candidates, mostly as nominees of the Lok Janshakti Party headed by Chirag Paswan which has raised a banner of revolt against the JD(U). According to … Read more

Bihar polls: BJP expels 9 leaders for contesting polls against NDA candidates

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Cracking down on rebels, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday suspended its nine leaders for six years. The leaders were expelled for filing nomination against National Democratic Alliance candidates in the Bihar Assembly Election 2020. The BJP is contesting the Bihar polls, due to start from October 28, in alliance with Janata Dal (United) and … Read more

Bihar Assembly election: Sasaram headed for triangular contest due to shifting loyalties

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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

Bihar JD(U) candidates’ list bears stamp of Nitish Kumar’s carefully crafted social engineering

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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

Bihar Assembly election: NDA may announce seat-sharing arrangement today as senior BJP leaders reach Patna

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With BJP’s Bihar in-charge Devendra Fadnavis back in Patna, the announcement on NDA seat-sharing formula for the Bihar Assembly election 2020 is likely to be made today. Bihar BJP election in-charge Devendra Fadnavis, BJP Bihar in-charge Bhupender Yadav, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, state president Sanjay Jaiswal and deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi during … Read more

LJP won’t contest under Nitish Kumar’s leadership in Bihar, say party sources; wants alliance with BJP only

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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

Dharmendra Pradhan slams Congress for spreading ‘false information’ about farm sector reforms

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Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday slammed the opposition Congress for spreading “false information” about agricultural reforms and said they have a “history of exploiting farmers”. The Narendra Modi government ensured a better future to farmers through the agrarian reforms which aimed at eliminating middlemen from the supply chain of farm produce, he said. … Read more

Confident that Hathras rape trial will be fast; hope they hang soon: Smriti Irani

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Minister for women and children and textiles, Smriti Irani, in an interview with ET, took on the Congress leadership for “not showing any remorse on the opposition’s treatment” of Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh Singh, and for urging Congress-ruled states to bypass the Centre’s bills on agriculture reforms. She said women issues are “not political … Read more

Sonia Gandhi urges Congress chief ministers to pass laws to negate central farm acts

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New Delhi: Hardening stand against the contentious farm Acts, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has urged party-run state governments to explore the possibility of passing laws under Article 254(2) of the Constitution, which allowed states to override certain central laws. Gandhi’s advice to Congress CMs came on Monday, when the main opposition party held a nation-wide … Read more

What is left of NDA after Akali Dal, Shiv Sena exit: Saamana

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Mumbai: With the Shiromani Akali Dal walking out of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over farm bills, the Shiv Sena on Monday wondered if the BJP-led alliance really exists and asked who are in the coalition now. An editorial in Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ said it was surprising that NDA’s “last pillar” Shiromani Akali Dal was … Read more