Mla claims abduction by Maoists
Mystery shrouded an RJD MLA’s reported abduction by suspected Maoists in Bihar’s southern Aurangabad district during his campaigns on Saturday afternoon. While the party denied his abduction after his safe return, the police had launched a search after his family’s complaint.
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.
In Bihar, uncertainty looms over Assembly election results
It’s been just over a week since the Allahabad high court verdict in the Ayodhya title suit case.
J’khand: Arjun Munda expands Cabinet to 12
Almost a month after taking over as Jharkhand chief minister, BJP leader Arjun Munda on Friday expanded his Cabinet, taking the total number of ministers in the state’s coalition government, including
Ticket first, party later for some
Such is the all-consuming need for Assembly poll tickets among some politicians in Bihar that they would not join a party without getting its tickets to contest elections!
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.
C.P. Thakur resigns as Bihar BJP chief
In a blow to the BJP ahead of the Assembly polls, Bihar BJP president C.P.
Bihar politicians on party-hopping spree
With politicians in poll-bound Bihar busy quitting their parent parties to join other promising parties, all the leading parties in the state have undergone a curious assortment in their upper and middle ranks, mostly in the past two months, requiring voters to be more observant as the polls begin two weeks later.
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.