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This Kishor can’t sing: Bihar tunes out PKNEW DELHI: Prashant Kishor has often been credited for being the scriptwriter of the electoral successes of several political parties and satraps. His most anticipated script has, however, turned out to be a spectacular dud.When he started his public outreach in Bihar with a padyatra from Champaran three…
NEW DELHI/PATNA: Before these polls, Chirag Paswan had described himself as “sabji mein namak” (salt in vegetables), which is essential to any political broth. Winning 19 of the 29 seats his party contested, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief proved his mettle again in Bihar as his performance propelled NDA past the 200-seat mark. What…
NEW DELHI: Staring at a political abyss in the face of continued decline post-2014 – hastened after 2019 – a flailing opposition came together to give itself the collective moniker ‘INDIA’, vowing to stick together and fight jointly. It enjoyed a surge in fortunes and gave the governing BJP alliance a scare in 2024.The INDIA…
NEW DELHI: Congress’s abysmal show threatens to again trap the party in the rut that it has been trying to climb out of since 2014 – an endless cycle of recriminations, dissent and defections, and whispered demands for change of personnel and strategy.Coming against the backdrop of shocking losses in Haryana and Maharashtra, this setback…
NEW DELHI: It may be the first time in three decades that RJD doesn’t have a single member in Rajya Sabha when the next Bihar assembly elections come around in 2030.The party now has five members in the upper house, but it will gradually lose these seats even if a non-NDA party – like AIMIM…
NDA’s three-fourth majority in the third most populous state, its best performance since 2010, comes as a major endorsement of the ‘double-engine plank’ of the alliance and has validated the coalition’s belief that an opposition campaign centred on targeting PM Narendra Modi carries a stiff cost.The coalition contested the polls as a united family, blurring…
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…
Flashback: On June 4, 2024, as the results started trickling in, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in shock. The party had set the ambitious “400 paar” target for itself in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the party failed to get a majority on its own for the first time since 2014.The scale of the…
Women outshine men in voter turnout In the 2025 Bihar election, two headline-grabbing outcomes have captured the spotlight: a sweeping victory for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and a record voter turnout unseen in more than seventy years. Yet, the most defining aspect of this election may well be who turned out to vote and…
