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 »Bihar votes today: What’s at stake in Phase One? – bihar’s choice
71/243 assembly constituencies (CA) in Bihar will go to the polls on Wednesday in the first of the three-phase assembly elections. Here are some things that underscore the importance of this phase. 1) Strong holds and swing seats. A look at the last two assembly elections in the regions that …
Read More »Tejashwi Yadav’s 11 questions for Prime Minister Modi before his demonstrations in Bihar
Bihar Elections 2020: Tejashwi Yadav posed 11 questions to the Prime Minister. (PROCEEDINGS) Patna: RJD leader and chief ministerial candidate of Mahagatbandhan, Tejashwi Yadav, has posed 11 questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of his visit to Bihar on October 28. The prime minister will hold rallies in Darbhanga, …
Read More »Bihar Assembly Election: Will boost growth in Bihar, if elected to power, says Nitish Kumar – bihar choice
Bihar Prime Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday urged voters to return him to power so that the development initiatives taken by his government over the past 15 years could continue. At a rally in the assembly segment of Sakra, Muzaffarpur, to poll the party’s candidate, Ashok Kumar Choudhary, the JD …
Read More »‘Ask your father,’ says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in indirect attack on RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav – bihar choice
With only a few days left until the assembly elections in Bihar, the political parties are no longer holding back as the electoral battle grows intense day by day. In a further attack, Bihar Prime Minister Nitish Kumar carried out a subtle excavation at Tejashwi Yadav of Rashtriya Janata Dal …
Read More »Chirag Paswan and LJP phenomenon is not just about BJP, it’s about RSS
There is another important aspect to this: caste. Sangh’s infiltration of the LJP can also be seen as an attempt to further weaken Bihar’s social justice-based parties. In this election, the LJP has become an important vehicle for promoting upper caste representation. More than 40 percent of the LJP candidates …
Read More »Bihar 2020 Assembly Election: Tejashwi expands Lalu agenda in current context, says Manoj Jha – bihar choice
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) national spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Manoj Jha has said there is a yearning for change in Bihar, which depends on the ballot box. Jha spoke with Arun Kumar about the polls, his promise of a million jobs and other related topics. Edited excerpts: How do …
Read More »Lalu Yadav’s RJD Party Has Most Candidates With Criminal Records, ADR Report Shows
RJD has submitted the most candidates with criminal records, followed by BJP Patna: There are no qualms about presenting candidates with criminal records and this is reflected in the first phase of the 2020 Bihar elections, as out of 1,064, 328 (31%) candidates have criminal cases and Rashtriya Janta Dal …
Read More »Tejashwi Yadav takes a 180 degree turn and shows ‘sympathy’ for Chirag Paswan
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav said on Monday that Bihar Prime Minister Nitish Kumar has done an injustice to Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan. Tejashwi Yadav’s comments came a day after he directed a thinly veiled taunt at the LJP as he addressed the election rallies before …
Read More »Has Tejashwi Yadav of RJD turned the battle around against Nitish Kumar?
2. Coherence within the Alliance This focus on employment also fits well with Tejashwi’s pre-election alliance with Congress and the three left-wing parties: CPI-ML, CPI and CPI-M. The idea of the alliance is to focus on the poor, the unemployed and farmers and not so much on specific caste groups. …
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