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How ‘Sushasan’ CM, Set To Take Oath For 10th Time, Rode Pro-Incumbency PATNA : It had to come from JDU workers, a line that summed up the Bihar assembly poll verdict and the state’s dominant mood on Friday — “Bihar ka ek hi star, Nitish Kumar (Bihar has one star, Nitish Kumar).”The chorus that rang…
NEW DELHI: PM Modi termed NDA’s landslide performance as “sushasan ki jeet (victory of good governance)”, in what was seen as an endorsement of the continuation of Nitish Kumar as CM. Nitish is popular among his followers as “Sushasan Babu”, claiming to have effected a turnaround in the past 20 years by improving law and…
PATNA: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won a stunning landslide in Bihar, with the governing coalition headed by chief minister Nitish Kumar bagging 202 of 243 assembly seats in a hugely one-sided outcome that underscores the JDU boss’s political resilience despite two decades in office, and PM Narendra Modi’s sway over voters, while deflating the Grand…
In Bihar’s political theatre, irony has always been the opening act, and Nitish Kumar, the master of reinvention, once again turned contradiction into victory.With the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) sweeping the assembly elections by surging past the half-way mark, one wonders what could have been the X-factor that made the people of one of the…
NEW DELHI: And the winner is … Well, if it’s Bihar, who else but Nitish Kumar. The JD(U) chief, who was contesting the 2025 assembly elections with his back to the wall, has fought against all odds to prove yet again that he is the undisputed leader of Bihar. Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), which had managed…
NEW DELHI: Bihar moves into the verdict stage on Friday as counting began at 8 am, alongside bypoll results for eight assembly seats across six states as well as union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Early counting trends in Bihar showed the ruling NDA ahead in 49 assembly seats, while the opposition INDIA bloc was…
Tejashwi Yadav and Nitish Kumar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Leaders across party lines in Bihar went into overdrive on Thursday as the state prepared for the vote counting of the high-stakes assembly election on Friday that will decide whether chief minister Nitish Kumar secures a record fifth term in office.The Election Commission (EC) said elaborate…
NEW DELHI: Posters featuring Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar — with the caption “Tiger abhi zinda hai” — appeared outside the party office on Thursday, a day before the assembly election results.Former Bihar minister and JD(U) leader Ranjit Sinha put out a poster that read, “Protector of Dalits, Mahadalits, backward classes, upper castes, and minorities…
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and PM Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) celebrated with evident jubilation on Tuesday, while those from the Mahagathbandhan (MGB) struck a dismissive tone, after exit polls following the second and final phase of polling in Bihar predicted a sweeping victory for the ruling coalition.“Exit polls…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party’s Bihar co-ordinator Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday refuted opposition’s claim that all is not well in NDA camp citing Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar‘s absence from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign ahead of assembly elections.While talking to news agency ANI, Pradhan said that it was a part of NDA’s plan that…
