Cong banks on Rahul campaign
The Congress, having unexpectedly lost much of its lustre in poll-bound Bihar due to a string of violent protests over ticket distribution, hopes to halt the ongoing war of populist rhetoric between t
Lalu, Paswan promise special anti-riot force
Playing to Bihar’s electoral galleries and keen to outdo the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in its own games, the RJD-LJP alliance on Monday promised sops galore to the minorities, the extremely backward castes and the upper castes. But the icing on the cake was the two parties’ promise to set up a special “anti-riot force” with 25 per cent Muslims in it and 15 per cent reservation to Muslims in government jobs.
Lalu motorbikes in tough race with Nitish bicycles
In poll-bound Bihar’s political race between free motorcycles of the future and free bicycles already running on village roads, the humbler two-wheeler keeps scoring more points and bringing for the l
C.P. Thakur signals truce, off to Delhi
A day after resigning from his post, BJP Bihar chief C.P. Thakur on Saturday indicated his willingness to continue working as before and flew to Delhi to meet senior central leaders. But the crisis unlocked pent-up resentment against deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi within the BJP.
C.P. Thakur quits as Bihar BJP chief
The ruling BJP in poll-bound Bihar faced a major crisis on Friday when its state president, Dr C.P.
Nitish says Lalu is politically unreliable
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday attacked arch-rival and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on a wide range of issues, describing him as politically unreliable and predicting that the RJD-LJP alliance had only defeat in store for itself in Bihar’s upcoming Assembly polls.
JD-U minority wing chief joins Lalu
Bihar’s inescapable politics over Muslim votes threw up an open mud-slinging game between the ruling JD(U) and the main Opposition party, RJD, on Tuesday as they competed to project themselves as the genuine well-wishers of the state’s 1.36 crores Muslims.
Rabri will contest 2 seats instead of none
After briefly disappearing from Bihar’ politics in the early run-up to the Assembly polls, former chief minister Rabri Devi of the RJD made a comeback on Monday when her husband and party supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav announced that she would contest in two Assembly constituencies.
Cong workers resort to arson over tickets
The widespread resentment among Congress workers in Bihar over allocation of party tickets for the Assembly polls took violent turns in several districts across the state on Sunday, forcing the nation
Ticket allotment irks freedom fighters
Three freedom-fighters in the twilight of their ages in Bihar on Friday offered to return their bronze citations to the Congress-led UPA government in protest against the party’s allotment of tickets for Bihar’s Assembly polls to candidates they consider utterly unworthy.