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New Delhi: While order was reserved on a petition filed by former BSF Jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav, the Supreme Court said the issue could not be left pending indefinitely as it concerned the country’s most important office, that of the prime minister. LiveLaw has reported that the petitioner’s lawyer had …

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 …

Following the assertion by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday about the rejected ballots marking the difference between his victory and defeat in the Bihar elections, a report indicates that according to Election Commission records, only in the Hilsa assembly constituency the margin of victory was less than the number …

Written by Ritika Chopra, Harikishan Sharma | New Delhi | Updated: November 13, 2020 8:09:14 am Voters undergo a thermal test at a polling station when they arrive to cast their votes for the second phase of the Bihar Assembly elections in Muzaffarpur district on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 (PTI …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Bihar is the first state to vote after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year. (Photo Source: IE) Initial trends suggest that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to become Bihar’s largest party for the first time. But despite the elaborate arrangements made by the Electoral Commission …

The counting process in the Bihar assembly elections is proving to be a slow process: at 4pm, only about 42% of the votes had been counted. With Covid restrictions in place and the number of voters limited to 1,000 per seat, this time 63% more EVM was used. According to …