After spending weeks of caution and calculation to decide their candidates for the Assembly polls, Bihar’s major parties are aghast to see a renewed wave of revolts and protests accompanying the phase-wise announcement of the lists of candidates.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday likened his son Tejaswi with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, saying people will flock to see Tejaswi like they come to see the Nehru-Gandhi family’s scion.

The BSP, keen to rise to power or come gainfully close to it in Bihar, on Saturday announced its second bunch of names of 125 candidates for next month’s Assembly polls, reflecting careful calculations of the state’s caste equations and setting the stage for a controversy.

The NCP, which has projected its national general secretary and well-known Muslim leader Tariq Anwar as its chief ministerial candidate in Bihar, has raised the contentious issue of the Muslim chief minister by accusing leaders from major parties of trying to oust Bihar’s only Muslim chief minister after a brief time in office.

Bihar’s political arch rivals, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar, have taken to the unlikely route of employing poetry to describe their respective situations and attack each other, thus smartening their images a month before the state’s Assembly polls begin to decide their fate.

LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan’s dreams of rising to power in Bihar with the RJD met a major double whammy on Tuesday when two of the party’s prominent MLAs joined the ruling JD(U) and the BJP, swelling the ongoing exodus of leaders from the RJD-LJP camp.

In yet another setback to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, his brother-in-law and former Rajya Sabha MP Subhash Yadav on Monday quit the party with the probability of joining the Congress.

As the Congress gets busy in selecting candidates for the Bihar Assembly polls, the old strings of family politics are fervently at work in the party’s state unit, causing resentment and threatening t

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s efforts to appease Bihar’s “upper castes” suffered a setback on Saturday when his confidant, former Union minister Akhilesh Prasad Singh, quit the party in protest agains

Relations between Bihar’s ruling alliance partners JD(U) and BJP, already strained due to their differences of opinion on Gujarat’s BJP chief minister Narendra Modi, suffered another blow on Saturday