All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) will soon establish its electoral machinery in West Bengal ahead of the crucial 2021 assembly elections, party leaders said after meeting with party chief Asaduddin Owaisi in Hyderabad on Saturday. the leaders said. AIMIM, after winning five seats in the recent Bihar elections, had announced that …
Read More »Bihar 2020 election result days after NDA wins Bihar, key meeting today to elect leader
Bihar Election Results: The NDA had announced Nitish Kumar as its main ministerial candidate. (Archive) Patna (Bihar): The decision on whether Nitish Kumar would win another term as Bihar’s chief minister will be announced today after a meeting of lawmakers from the National Democratic Alliance, which won the majority in …
Read More »What does the caste profile of the MLA in Bihar tell us about politics? – bihar’s choice
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 …
Read More »Bad selection, skydiving leaders spelled Cong debacle
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 …
Read More »Bihar Assembly 2020 Election Result: Were These the Closest Bihar Polls in 43 Years? – bihar’s choice
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 …
Read More »Bihar 2020 Election Result: Nitish Gets Modi’s Seal Of Approval, Slated For His Fourth Term
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 …
Read More »Bihar Assembly Elections | No doubts about Nitish Kumar as chief minister, says BJP in charge of Bihar
True, Lok Janshakti Party may have affected JD (U) count, says Bhupendra Yadav Bhupendra Yadav talks about the recently concluded Assembly poll in the state. What do you attribute as factors that helped your victory in Bihar? The leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the confidence expressed by the …
Read More »Nitish Kumar’s JDU party wins Hilsa’s seat by just 12 votes
Bihar Assembly Election 2020: The Hilsa Seat of Bihar was won by the JDU of Nitish Kumar. Patna: The JD (U) has won the Hilsa assembly seat in Bihar by just 12 votes, according to the Election Commission website, a result contested by rival RJD. According to the results updated …
Read More »Bihar election results unlikely late into the night due to slow count
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 …
Read More »Results of the Bihar Assembly elections | Claiming to be Modi’s ‘Hanuman’ during campaign, Chirag Paswan hurts NDA
The chairman of the Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJP), Chirag Paswan, wanted to play the role of kingmaker, but ended with the total annihilation of his party. It did not win a single seat and secured second place in eight seats in the Bihar Assembly polls for 243 constituencies. Also …
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