There is another important aspect to this: caste. Sangh’s infiltration of the LJP can also be seen as an attempt to further weaken Bihar’s social justice-based parties. In this election, the LJP has become an important vehicle for promoting upper caste representation. More than 40 percent of the LJP candidates …
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“We are with Nitish Kumar for the development of Bihar,” says the prime minister at a rally in Sasaram At a rally in Sasaram on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended speculation about growing differences between the JD (U) alliance partners and the Lok Janshakti party, while claiming that a …
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NEW DELHI: In a major turn of events, senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Usha Vidyarthi, joined the Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) in New Delhi on Wednesday. Vidyarthi joined the LJP in the presence of the party chief, Chirag Paswan. Prior to this, another BJP stalwart, Rajendra Singh, …
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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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