Will the verdict of the exit polls stand when the results of the elections to Bihar’s 243-member legislative assembly are announced on Tuesday (November 10)? Almost all exit polls have given an advantage to the Grand Alliance (GA), or Mahagathbandhan, which comprises the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress and left-wing …
Read More »Bihar Assembly Election 2020: High Stakes in Phase Three
The stakes are high for the various alliances in the third and final phase of the Bihar assembly elections, which will go to the polls on Saturday (November 7). The vote will take place in 78 seats and all alliances, including the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the main challenger …
Read More »Sonia Gandhi posts a video message the day before the Bihar polls
Bihar 2020 Election: Congress President Sonia Gandhi called on voters to vote for change in Bihar New Delhi: Ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, Congress Speaker Sonia Gandhi today fervently appealed to voters to announce a change in state and build a ‘new Bihar’, claiming that the JDU-BJP government He …
Read More »‘It neither says well, nor does it’, Sonia Gandhi criticizes the Bihar government in a video message
A day before Bihar goes to the polls for the first phase on October 28, Congress President Sonia Gandhi released a video message and urged the people of Bihar to vote against the government whose “actions and intentions they are questionable. ” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi shared the message on …
Read More »Explained: Why didn’t Tejashwi Yadav grant alliance partners seats this time?
By: Desk Explained | New Delhi, Patna | October 16, 2020 10:41:21 am Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav during a press conference in New Delhi. (Express photo: Praveen Khanna) After their experiment of generously handing out seats to alliance partners and contesting only 19 state seats in last year’s …
Read More »Bihar’s elections will be held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and 7; Result to be declared on November 10
Chief Elections Commissioner Sunil Arora with Election Commissioners Sushil Chandra (left) and Rajiv Kumar (right) announce the 2020 Bihar Assembly election schedule at a press conference in New Delhi on Friday. In announcing the election schedule for Bihar’s 243-member assembly, Chief Elections Commissioner Sunil Arora said it will be one …
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