The BJP has nominated Sushil Kumar Modi for the seat (Archive) New Delhi: LJP Chairman Chirag Paswan said on Saturday that it was the prerogative of the BJP to announce a candidate for the Bihar Rajya Sabha elections. The seat was vacated after the death of Chirag Paswan’s father and …
Read More »Chirag Paswan downplays BJP by fielding Sushil Modi for the seat won by Ram Vilas Paswan
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 …
Read More »Chirag Downplays BJP By Lining Up Sushil Modi For Seat Won By Ram Vilas Paswan India News
PATNA: With cold shoulders from the Bjp in the by-seat election of Rajya Sabha in Bihar, LJP chairman Chirag Paswan He said Saturday that he belonged to the saffron festival and that he was free to make a decision on who to place. The seat was vacated after the death …
Read More »Bihar Election, Nitish Kumar sworn in: “Congratulations … BJP appointed you Chief Minister”: Swipe de Chirag Paswan
LJP chief Chirag Paswan tweeted congratulations to Nitish Kumar (file) Patna: Shortly after Nitish Kumar took over as Chief Minister of Bihar for an unprecedented sixth time, LJP’s Chirag Paswan tweeted to offer his congratulations. However, hidden in the tweets, there was a hit to the head of JDU, a …
Read More »Chirag Paswan’s LJP ‘X-Factor’ in Nitish Kumar’s Bihar Election Fortunes
Chirag Paswan’s LJP won just one seat and secured less than six percent of the vote (Archive) Nitish Kumar appears poised to return as Bihar’s chief minister (for the sixth time) despite his party’s poor performance in the elections; Janata Dal United (JDU) went from 71 seats in 2015 to …
Read More »What does the caste profile of the MLA in Bihar tell us about politics? – bihar’s choice
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 …
Read More »Nitish Kumar, on being prime minister, says the NDA will decide
Nitish Kumar said he left the decision on Chirag Paswan to the BJP (Archive) Bihar Prime Minister Nitish Kumar, whose Janata Dal United has suffered a severe blow in state elections due to the Chirag Paswan factor, said today that he has left the decision on Party chief Lok Janshakti …
Read More »Bihar Assembly 2020 Election Result: Were These the Closest Bihar Polls in 43 Years? – bihar’s choice
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has managed to secure a majority of 125 in Bihar’s 243-member assembly. The percentage of votes for the two alliances is almost identical: 37.3% for the NDA and 37.2% for Mahagathbandhan (MGB). This is the smallest majority for a ruling alliance since the October 2005 …
Read More »Chirag Paswan now says all he wanted was to make BJP stronger
Bihar 2020 election result: Chirag Paswan was alone in this election. Patna, Bihar: Chirag Paswan, widely regarded as the x factor in the Bihar elections, did not live up to his claims and won only one of the 243 seats in the state, but calls it a victory saying he …
Read More »Bihar 2020 Election Result: Nitish Gets Modi’s Seal Of Approval, Slated For His Fourth Term
Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly endorsed Nitish Kumar as leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar on Wednesday, ending speculation that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would push its own candidate for the highest post of the been after winning a narrow victory in the recently concluded assembly …
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