Five of Bihar’s 15 districts, which go to the polls in the third and final phase of the assembly elections on Saturday, rank among the state’s top 10 Covid-19 districts in terms of the total number of cases. Polls in 78 seats in Bihar’s 243-member legislative assembly will decide the …
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Ahead of the third phase of the vote, Loktantrik Janata Party chief Chirag Paswan sharpened his attack on Prime Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday, saying that after the declaration of results on November 10, he will be seen bowing in front of the chief of Rashtriya Janata Dal, Tejashwi. Yadav. …
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Bihar 2020 elections: Rahul Gandhi said he will “not budge an inch” until Prime Minister Modi is defeated (archive) Patna: Congressional leader Rahul Gandhi today attacked the electronic voting machines (EVM) used in the elections and also a section of the Indian media, saying they would not bother him in …
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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 …
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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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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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