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NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Saturday announced its second list of candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, fielding nominees for Narkatiaganj, Kishanganj, Kasba, Purnia, and Gaya Town constituencies. Shaswat Kedar Pandey will contest from Narkatiaganj, while Qamrul Hoda has been fielded from Kishanganj. Irfan Alam, Jitender Yadav, and Mohan Shrivasta will represent the…
Prashant Kishor, Tejashwi, Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar (L-R) Bihar assembly (background) NEW DELHI: For nearly three decades, Bihar has been dominated by socialist forces, with Lalu Prasad’s RJD and Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) shaping the state’s political landscape. Since 1990, these two stalwarts of the JP movement have kept national parties on the sidelines. Ahead…
NEW DELHI: In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, despite the consecration of the Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost the Faizabad seat to the Samajwadi Party. However, it retained all the seats in Bihar’s Mithilanchal, considered the paternal home of Sita, Lord Ram’s wife.As Bihar gears up for the…
NEW DELHI: It has been more than three decades since former Bihar chief minister and a flag bearer of backward classes, Karpoori Thakur bowed out from the stage of Bihar politics. However, his disciples, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, still swear by Karpoori’s name on the issue of social justice.When…
JMM general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya (ANI) NEW DELHI: The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Saturday announced that it will contest the Bihar assembly elections independently.JMM said it would “review” its alliance with the Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Jharkhand after the polls in the neighbouring state. Bihar Elections: NDA Announces Seat Sharing Deal;…
NEW DELHI: When Ram Vilas Paswan, Bihar’s legendary political “weatherman,” passed away in 2020, the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) seemed at a crossroads. His son, Chirag Paswan, stepped in to lead the party, inheriting both the mantle and the expectations of a Dalit political legacy.Since taking over, Chirag has sought to modernise the party’s…
In the 1990s, the powerful “MY” (Muslim-Yadav) vote bank propelled Lalu Prasad Yadav to the summit of Bihar politics. Today, as his eldest son Tejashwi Yadav aims to repeat that feat, the crucial question is: which way will Muslim voters swing? With Prashant Kishor‘s pledge to field 40 Muslim candidates and Asaduddin Owaisi’s Grand Democratic…
NEW DELHI: Jan Suraaj chief Prashant Kishor on Wednesday announced that he would stay out of the electoral fray in Bihar, even as he seeks to “disrupt” the state’s power equation that has long swung between Nitish Kumar‘s JD(U) and Lalu Prasad Yadav‘s RJD. Prashant Kishor, who has served both the NDA and the Bihar…
NEW DELHI: In Bihar’s ever-colorful political arena, where alliances shift as swiftly as monsoon clouds, the 2020 Assembly elections offered a rare sight — a showdown between saffron and red. The state, known for its complex caste equations and coalition compulsions, witnessed an unexpected surge from the Left, shaking up the familiar power equations.In 2020,…
Folk singer and BJP leader Maithili Thakur has filed her nomination papers from the Alinagar Assembly constituency for the upcoming Bihar elections NEW DELHI: Folk singer and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Maithili Thakur filed her nomination papers from the Alinagar Assembly constituency for the upcoming Bihar elections.Thakur took to X to share her feelings,…
