Patna: Of the 243 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly that went to the polls, 40 seats saw an extremely close race where the margin of victory was less than 3,500. Of these, the winning margin was less than 1,000 in 11 seats. In Hilsa, for example, Rashtriya’s candidate Janata …
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File photo of the late Ram Vilas Paswan. (PTI) Despite his national ambitions, Ram Vilas Paswan could, from the days of Janata Dal and after, never really get out of Bihar politics. The closest he came to becoming the state’s CM was in February 2005 when his LJP party won …
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