PATNA: Congressional candidate Luv Sinha, son of party leader Shatrughan Sinha, is behind BJP’s Nitin Nabin from the Bankipur seat, according to trends from the Election Commission on Tuesday. Luv Sinha faces three-time BJP MLA Nitin Nabin, who has been winning the seat since 2005. Previously, Nabin expressed confidence in …
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NEW DELHI: The Electoral Commission Tuesday said there has been a no-fault count on the Bihar assembly elections as well as elections to by-elections in 54 electoral districts. “It goes without saying that there has been an absolutely error-free counting process so far. Just over 1 crore of votes have …
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NEW DELHI: The 94 assembly constituencies that went to the polls in phase two of the Bihar elections on Tuesday registered 53.51 percent turnout and the figure is likely to rise as voting continues beyond than scheduled in various places, said the Electoral Commission. Combined voter turnout in the two …
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PATNA: Less than 36 hours before the first phase of elections to the assembly in Bihar, the violence took place during the idol immersion procession in Deendayal Upadhyaya Chowk below the Kotwali Police Station area of Munger just before midnight Monday, leading to the death of at least one person …
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The Election Commission (EC) has asked the Bihar authorities, which is targeting the ballot box, to speed up search and seizure operations to ensure free and fair elections in the Assembly in the state, an official said. The instructions were issued by the voting panel on Friday during a meeting …
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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 …
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NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Wednesday issued a notice to former Madhya pradesh Prime Minister and Leader of Congress Kamal Nath on his ‘article’ comment against the minister of state Imarti Devi. The electoral body has requested your response within 48 hours after receiving the notification. Last week, Nath …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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