Tag Archives: Bihar Assembly Election 2020

India’s unity in diversity was on display on the first day of the five-day opening session of the 17th Bihar Vidhan Sabha, when elected members from different regions who cross party lines took the oath in different languages. However, Shakeel Ahmad Khan, MLA of the Kasba Congress, surprised everyone by …

Two days after attacking the leadership of Congress for their poor effort and demonstration in the recently concluded Bihar state assembly polls, RJD Vice President Shivanand Tiwary mocked BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, while providing the reasons why he did not obtain the post of vice minister. Tiwary said: “Sushil …

Nitish Kumar has a ministerial council of 14 members. Patna: Bihar’s newly sworn-in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced today the various portfolios allocated among his council of ministers, and kept the original portfolio for himself. Governor Phagu Chauhan was sworn in to a 14-member council of ministers in Patna on …

Nitish Kumar’s JDU party won 43 seats in Bihar elections (archive) New Delhi: Bihar’s chief minister Nitish Kumar has clarified his recent comment on the “last elections”, saying that he will not retire in the near future and that his comment was misinterpreted. “I did not talk about retirement … …

Much has been said about the role caste plays, or not, in Bihar’s electoral politics. Among those who claim that Bihar politics is determined entirely by caste and those who argue that the alignments of caste and party have now become fluid and thus have made caste irrelevant to other …

About a dozen perceived non-party candidates received congressional tickets in the recently concluded assembly elections in Bihar, a move that angered loyalists who refused to campaign at the polls, people familiar with the matter said. And all of these “outside” candidates failed to win their elections, lowering the congressional count …

Jitan Ram Manjhi has been elected leader of his four-member legislative party. Patna: Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) chief Jitan Ram Manjhi was elected leader of his four-member legislative party on Thursday. The four newly elected MLAs met at Mr. Manjhi’s residence, where they elected the former prime minister as the …

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has managed to secure a majority of 125 in Bihar’s 243-member assembly. The percentage of votes for the two alliances is almost identical: 37.3% for the NDA and 37.2% for Mahagathbandhan (MGB). This is the smallest majority for a ruling alliance since the October 2005 …

Axis My India has issued an apology for wrongly predicting the results of the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections in its exit poll, which favored Mahagathbandhan to form the government. The Axis My India pollsters had earned a reputation for correctly calling elections in the recent past. The India Today-Axis My …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly endorsed Nitish Kumar as leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar on Wednesday, ending speculation that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would push its own candidate for the highest post of the been after winning a narrow victory in the recently concluded assembly …