Tag Archives: Choice of Bihar

This is the second shock for Nitish Kumar after he retained the post of Chief Minister of Bihar. Patna: Nitish Kumar, still resentful of the Bihar elections that demoted him as a junior member of the BJP, has received further humiliation from his longtime ally in a state where his …

Salman Khurshid also denied that Congress was a rapidly disintegrating party. New Delhi: Congress is not a party in crisis and there is no leadership vacuum, a senior leader said today, rebutting colleagues who feel otherwise and have not held back their criticism since the party’s debacle in Bihar. “Sonia …

Nitish Kumar is set to be sworn in as Prime Minister of Bihar for the fourth time on Monday. The constituents of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which won the Bihar Assembly elections, approved Kumar’s name for the top post at a meeting on Sunday. Then he went to meet …

Congressional leader Tariq Anwar said the party must complete the alliance formalities well in advance. (Archive) New Delhi: The delay in finalizing the allocation of seats for the Bihar elections negatively affected Mahagathbandhan’s survey performance, Congressional Senior Leader Tariq Anwar said today, stating that Congress must learn from him and …

Two days before the NDA officially elects Nitish Kumar as its leader in Bihar, Kumar submitted his resignation to Governor Phagu Chauhan on Friday, starting the process of forming the new government. The term of the current Bihar legislative assembly is scheduled to end on November 29. On Sunday, the …

Bihar 2020 Results: Bihar Election Results Declared Early Wednesday Morning (Archive) New Delhi: Accusations by opposition parties of incorrectly counting votes and claims that the winning candidates in the Bihar elections did not receive confirmatory certificates are not based on facts, Election Commission sources said on Friday. The electoral body …

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 …

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 …

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: November 12, 2020 10:21:29 pm Janata Dal (United) President Nitish Kumar arrives at the party office in Patna on November 12 (Photo: PTI) Amid speculation that Nitish Kumar will be sworn in as Bihar’s prime minister for his fourth term on …

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 …