New Delhi: The Opposition alliance for the Bihar assembly elections is facing a mismatch between theory and practice of electoral politics and social chemistry on the ground. The RJD-led front has several issues to challenge the Nitish Kumar regime. Adding to the incumbency burden are problems inflicted on the administration by the pandemic in healthcare … Read more
NEW DELHI: Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Monday said a decision on the Bihar assembly election schedule will be taken soon. A team of the Election Commission (EC) plans to visit the poll-bound state within the next two to three days. Arora said amid Covid-19, the poll commission norms have to be reviewed to … Read more
New Delhi: While the Nitish Kumar government earned full marks in its previous avatars for its game-changing bicycle scheme for school-going girls, this election the state has some worrying school data to handle. In its August 2020 assessment of schooling—for the 2019-20 academic session-—the Centre has red flagged ‘low retention rate at the secondary level’, … 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: JDU parliamentarian Harivansh on Wednesday filed his nomination papers for the post of Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha. As the NDA candidate, he is likely to be elected. Harivansh held the post from August 2018, but his RS term ended on April 9. With his RS re-election, he became NDA’s natural choice … Read more
New Delhi: The BJP has avoided the use of terms like “ jungleraaj” or “Susashan” in all its seven digital capsules across social media platforms launched till now even as the RJD launched booth-level WhatsApp groups to highlight the failures of the Nitish Kumar government as the political parties tweak their digital campaign strategies ahead … Read more