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 …
Read More »‘Give me a vote, I’ll give you the vaccine’: Sanjay Raut mocks BJP’s promise of vaccination to Bihar
Taking a hit on the BJP election manifesto for Bihar linked to the poll that includes free Covid-19 vaccine for all of Bihar, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said that before it used to be ‘give me blood and I will give you freedom’. “But now it has become ‘give …
Read More »LJP sticks to pro-Narendra Modi and anti-JD (U) stance on second list despite BJP snub
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 …
Read More »Bihar 2020 Elections: As BJP Footprint Grows, Nitish Kumar Slips Into Muslim Base
Written by Santosh Singh | Patna | Updated: October 14, 2020 8:29:47 am The degree of Muslim alienation from the Modi-led government in the Center threatens to infect Nitish. (Proceedings) During the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, a Muslim voter in Siwan explained why they did not care that the JD …
Read More »Bihar economy: dragged down by inherited problems, slow and steady progress
Written by Aashish Aryan | New Delhi | Updated: October 13, 2020 9:43:32 am The cycles for schoolgirls was one of the plans of the Nitish government. For 2020-21, the budget for family health and wellness has doubled. (Proceedings) As Bihar heads into an election that promises to be a …
Read More »Bihar economy: dragged down by inherited problems, slow and steady progress
Written by Aashish Aryan | New Delhi | October 13, 2020 2:26:28 am The cycles for schoolgirls was one of the plans of the Nitish government. For 2020-21, the budget for family health and wellness has doubled. (Proceedings) As Bihar heads into an election that promises to be a proxy …
Read More »Surveys in times of pandemic: Bihar’s most expensive elections need less time, more resources
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: October 11, 2020 9:08:35 pm Bihar CM Nitish Kumar with MP CM Sushil Kumar Modi (left) at a press conference in Patna on Tuesday, October 6 (Photo: PTI) With 7.3 crore voters, the upcoming Legislative Assembly election in Bihar is not …
Read More »Congress forms Bihar survey committees and Randeep Surjewala will lead key panel
Bihar Election 2020: Randeep Surjewala is Chairman of the Election Management and Coordination Committee. New Delhi: On Sunday, Congress formed several panels for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, and the party’s general secretary, Randeep Surjewala, was appointed chairman of the election management and coordination committee. Mohan Prakash was appointed coordinator …
Read More »Bihar Assembly Election: Awarded by BJP Government, Mukhiya Woman Gets RJD Ticket
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 …
Read More »Lalu Yadav will not campaign in Bihar state polls
Lalu Yadav has been in jail since January 2018. (File photo) Patna: RJD chief Lalu Yadav will not campaign for state elections in Bihar for the first time in more than four decades. The former chief minister, jailed for corruption since 2018, had handed over charges to his son Tejashwi …
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