By: Express News Service | Patna | Updated: October 25, 2020 10:34:16 pm Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan on tour in Jehanabad district on October 21 (Photo: PTI) Lok Janshakti Party Chairman Chirag Paswan said on Sunday that if his party comes to power in Bihar, corruption under Nitish …
Read More »Here’s why the Bihar elections attract UP leaders and parties
Before the 2015 Bihar assembly elections, Yadav’s chiefs, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav, had assembled a rickety grand alliance, which collapsed long before the elections were held. Its political tremors were felt in the northern belt of India. The two neighboring states, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, account for …
Read More »LJP sticks to pro-Narendra Modi and anti-JD (U) stance on second list despite BJP snub
The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) continued to provide a platform to candidates excluded by the BJP by including them on the party’s second list of 53 candidates released on Friday, though this time it has leaned heavily on its own cadre. Unlike the first list, which included high-level BJP leaders …
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 Assembly Election: Awarded by BJP Government, Mukhiya Woman Gets RJD Ticket
Just five years after leaving her job at a Delhi-based public school and living a comfortable life with her husband IAS, she received the Champions of the Change of Hands award from Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu for her work in the remote panchayat Raj Singhwahini in the block of …
Read More »On the chessboard of the Bihar elections, LJP presents the BJP leader who lost a seat to JD (U)
In the 2015 Bihar assembly election, when the BJP-led NDA minus JD (U) took on the Grand Alliance (GA) at the peak of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity, the low-key Rajendra Singh, Then the party organization in charge of Jharkhand, was tips for the chief ministerial post in the BJP. …
Read More »Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: LJP to prop up its leaders, BJP rushes to appease JDU’s ire
Written by Santosh Singh | Patna | Updated: October 7, 2020 7:42:37 am Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with Senior BJP Leader and MP CM Sushil Kumar Modi during a press conference ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections in Patna on Tuesday (PTI) On a day of heated political action …
Read More »Explained: Against JD (U), but with BJP: making sense of LJP’s strategy
Written by Dipankar Ghose, Liz Mathew | New Delhi | October 6, 2020 3:15:42 am Paswans from LJP with Nitish Kumar from JD (U). (Express file) Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) has decided to go alone in the Bihar elections, fighting the JD (U), while remaining part of …
Read More »Bihar votes in 3 phases, starting October 28, results November 10
Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Date: Bihar must elect a new assembly of 243 members by November 29. New Delhi: Bihar will vote on October 28, November 3 and 7 for a new government and the results will be announced on November 10, the Electoral Commission said today. The country’s largest …
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