Shoulders cold for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the by-elections for a Rajya Sabha seat in Bihar, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Chairman Chirag Paswan said on Saturday that he belonged to the saffron party and was free to make a decision on who to align. The seat was vacated …
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National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Vijay Kumar Sinha beat rival Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Awadh Bihari Choudhary by 12 votes to become the chairman of Bihar’s 17th state assembly in a rare voting session. marked by uproar over an alleged ‘poaching’ audio clip by Lalu Prasad Yadav. While Sinha’s offer …
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In reaction to this development, JDU leader Neeraj Kumar, according to India Today, said that there was nothing left to prove that Lalu was a “habitual criminal”. Elections for the position of spokesperson Elections for the post of president of the Bihar Assembly are expected to take place on Wednesday …
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Maharashtra’s Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at Shiv Sena’s annual Dussehra rally. (Image: ANI) In the recently concluded Bihar polls, the BJP won 74 seats, while its ally JD (U) won 43. The RJD emerged as the largest party with 75 seats in the 243-member Assembly. After the Assembly elections in …
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Nitish Kumar is sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar for the fourth term. New Delhi: Nitish Kumar was sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar for the fourth consecutive term today. Along with him fourteen other ministers will be sworn in. Its new MPs, Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi …
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Written by Santosh Singh | Patna | Updated: November 13, 2020 1:33:57 pm Tejashwi Yadav addresses the MLA party in Patna on Thursday. (AND ME) Tejashwi Yadav said Thursday that the RJD could move the court if the Election Commission cannot satisfactorily respond to inquiries from 20 Mahagathbandhan candidates who …
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Following the assertion by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday about the rejected ballots marking the difference between his victory and defeat in the Bihar elections, a report indicates that according to Election Commission records, only in the Hilsa assembly constituency the margin of victory was less than the number …
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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 …
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PATNA: What LJP led by Chirag Paswan was to CM and JD (U) boss Nitish Kumar, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin OwaisiThe AIMIM had been for the RJD and Mahagathbandhan in the Bihar assembly polls. RJD National Vice President Shivanand Tiwari said Wednesday that he blamed AIMIM, preventing Mahagathbandhan from crossing the …
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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 …
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