In a change of strategy, the JD(U) is reaching out to the non-Congress political parties for less disruptive ways without diluting their stringent opposition against the UPA government on the issue of price rise in the upcoming Parliament session. In a bid not to get flakes for disruptive ways of opposing the UPA government as was the case

BSP supremo Mayawati is reinventing her famed “social engineering” strategy, which in its new avatar seeks to carry out a caste head count in the state.

The Samajwadi Party camp is buzzing with talks of imminent re-entry of the expelled party leader Azam Khan, after the party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav offered public apology to the Muslims in the state. The SP is hopeful of

The ruling JD(U) camp in Bihar is rife with anticipation that two of its prominent rebel leaders, namely Rajiv Ranjan (Lallan) Singh and Prabhunath Singh would soon join the RJD and the Congress respectively, which could make inroads in the ruling party’s support base in the upper caste in the state. The party leaders attribute the move

Following the poll debacle in the West Bengal municipal elections, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is roping in young ministers in UPA-2 for long drawn out party-building exercises in the state in the run-up to next year’s Assembly elections.

BSP supremo and UP chief minister Mayawati is all set to sound the poll bugle for the state’s Assembly polls, which are still two years away, by hitting the campaign trail from September this year.

Finally, it appears to be curtain for expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh’s relations with the Bachchan family. After Mr Singh’s relations with former Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan went into a tailspin, it appears that even Amitabh Bachchan has decided to snap ties with the expelled SP leader.

After a week-long summer break in London, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is gearing up to hit the political turf again with impending visits to the poll-bound West Bangal and Bihar. The foot soldiers of Mr Gandhi have already fanned out in the two states to prepare the ground for his visit.

Poll-bound Bihar chief minister and senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar appears to be banking high on the youth to bring him back to power in this year’s state Assembly elections. Heaping high praise on the achievements of the youth of the state, Mr Kumar in his recent blog post has commented that the youth of Bihar have not only

After the thaw in the JD(U) and the BJP relations in Bihar, the next hurdle for the two parties is all set to be seat-sharing arrangement. Though the JD(U) has indicated that it would go by the 2005 arrangement, the party will seek “swap” of Assembly constituencies by gauging strength of the two parties in light of the delimitation exercise.