In Bihar’s caste-driven politics, the upper-caste Rajputs are being actively wooed by the state’s major parties in order to ensure their victory in the Assembly polls.
The trend got a quiet boost after Lalu Prasad Yadav got former Janata Dal (United) MP and prominent Rajput leader Prabhunath Singh into the Rashtriya Janata Dal earlier this month.

The Congress in Bihar is undergoing both transition and turmoil as the party works ahead trying to bring all its warring factions together and distribute tickets to deserving, winnable candidates in all the 243 Assembly constituencies in the state.

Bihar chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar on Thursday targeted Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in his acerbic address at a JD(U) conclave, blaming her for the UPA government’s allegedly step-mo

The RJD-LJP’s projection of both Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav as the chief ministerial candidate and Mr Pashupati Kumar Paras as the deputy chief ministerial candidate is likely to damage the alliance’s prospects in the Assembly polls in two crucial ways due to the emerging reactions and strategies of the two parties’ opponents.

The LJP’s ability to finally get as many as 75 seats from its reluctant ally RJD to contest in Bihar’s Assembly polls was possible due to the RJD’s increased fears of losing LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan to the Congress and becoming a weaker opponent of the ruling JD(U)-BJP.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday announced the entire state as drought affected by adding ten more districts left from the list of 28 affected districts and said his government would use it

A close aide of the Bihar Assembly Speaker was put on public “trial” by the Maoists at a “kangaroo court” and badly beaten up for allegedly keeping local villagers’ land under illegal occupation and demolishing one villager’s house. The Maoists then threatened the Speaker, asking him not to visit his constituency.

In his quest for forming the right caste equations in a politically-charged society in Bihar right before the Assembly polls, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is working hard to woo the state’s upper castes to defeat the ruling JD(U)-BJP, whose upper caste vote base is believed to be waning.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s cup of legal troubles seems to be brimming over. A complaint case was on Tuesday lodged at a Patna court against Mr Kumar and his former aide R.C.P. Singh, now a Rajya Sabha member from the JD(U), alleging that the latter had filed a “false affidavit” during his nomination for the RS polls with Mr Kumar’s knowledge.

Yet another express train passing through Bihar was targeted by robbers late on Sunday night even as the police were clueless about the robbers who looted and injured passengers in an express train three days ago.