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Nitish Kumar while leaving after attending a cabinet meeting at the Old Secretariat in Patna. Samrat Choudhary, who is now the Bihar CM, and others were also seen. (PTI photo) With Nitish Kumar stepping aside, Bihar’s political transition has unfolded much as expected since he announced his move to the Rajya Sabha. Once Nitish signalled…
SRINAGAR: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s act of removing the face veil of a Muslim woman during a public function has set off a war of words far away in J&K, where CM Omar Abdullah has accused former CM Mehbooba Mufti of committing similar “unsecular act” by removing the burqa of a legitimate voter years ago.“Have…
Bihar CM Nitish Kuma with his son Nishant Kumar PATNA: JDU’s working president Sanjay Kumar Jha Friday stirred the proverbial political pot with his remark that “everybody wants Nishant Kumar to join politics”, though he quickly added a caveat that it all depended on the 49-year-old engineer son of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, who is…
PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar will resign Monday to clear the way for a new NDA govt, a senior JD(U) functionary said Saturday. Nitish is expected to chair the last cabinet meeting of the outgoing govt, then head to Raj Bhavan to submit his resignation to the governor.After returning, he will attend JD(U)’s meeting of…
NEW DELHI: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) registered a decisive victory in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections. The alliance won 202 seats in the 243-member assembly, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerging as the single largest party with 89 seats, closely followed by the Janata Dal (United) (JDU) at 85 seats. The Lok Janshakti…
Bhagalpur: Former Jharkhand CM and senior BJP leader Raghubar Das accused the RJD-Congress alliance of pushing Bihar into an era of “nepotism, crime and corruption” during the Lalu-Rabri regime between 1990 and 2005. He said the period was marked by “murders, kidnappings and rampant lawlessness” under what he described as “jungle raj”.Addressing an election meeting…
NEW DELHI: Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) (LJP(RV)) chief Chirag Paswan on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on the “collapsed” Mahagathbandhan alliance claiming that their hopes of coming to power are nothing but “Mungeri Lal ke sunehre sapne.““The way an infighting is going on in the Mahagathbandhan and the way the alliance has completely collapsed,…
NEW DELHI: Chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) on Wednesday released its first list of 57 candidates ahead of the Bihar assembly elections.JD(U), which is looking to retain power in the state, has fielded 30 new faces, while 27 sitting MLAs have been renominated.The announcement comes as National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners continue to…
NEW DELHI: Upset over not receiving a call after the seat-sharing finalisation among the parties in the NDA, ruling JD(U)’s MLA Gopal Mandal sat on the ground outside chief minister Nitish Kumar’s house.Mandal sat outside Nitish Kumar’s residence over his demand to meet the CM to get an election ticket from the Gopalpur assembly constituency…
