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Patna: Of the 243 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly that went to the polls, 40 seats saw an extremely close race where the margin of victory was less than 3,500. Of these, the winning margin was less than 1,000 in 11 seats. In Hilsa, for example, Rashtriya’s candidate Janata …

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 …

BJP Bihar Manifesto: Nitish Kumar will be Prime Minister for the next five years, the BJP stressed. Patna: The ruling BJP today promised 19 lakh of jobs and free coronavirus vaccination for all in his manifesto for the Bihar elections starting next week. The party also stressed that ally Nitish …

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 …

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 …

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. …

A meeting of senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to discuss the way forward ahead of the Bihar assembly elections scheduled for late October and early November this year is underway at the party chief’s residence, JP Nadda, Sunday. Union Interior Minister Amit Shah, Bihar’s Senior Deputy Minister …

The Bihar assembly polls, which begin on October 28, will be the largest in the Covid era so far. Nearly 7.3 million voters will elect 243 MLAs, with the pandemic still raging. A look at how the Electoral Commission plans to conduct polls in these unprecedented times and how other …

Bihar’s crucial assembly elections will be held in three phases starting on October 28 and votes will be counted on November 10, the Election Commission of India announced on Friday. The 2020 Bihar assembly election will be the first poll to be conducted since the coronavirus pandemic broke out in …

Prime Minister Nitish Kumar, who leads a coalition with the BJP, will fight for a fourth term in this election, with the opposition RJD and Congress challenging him. Last week, a team of deputy electoral commissioners returned from the state and presented their report on the feasibility of conducting surveys …