The JD(U)’s mahadalit wing chief, Rajesh Kumar Sada, on Tuesday rejoined the party two days after quitting and saved Bihar’s ruling party from further embarrassment in the face of continuing attacks on chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Describing his wife Rabri Devi as “nari nahin chingari hai” (not a woman, but a spark of fire), RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday brashly dared both Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi to contest against her in the two seats she is set to contest.

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.

The CPI(M-L) (Liberation), Bihar’s leading left party, on Sunday released its manifesto for the state’s Assembly polls beginning from October 21 while its ally CPI(M) announced 26 of its 30 candidates

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

The notification for the third phase of the six-phased State Assembly elections in Bihar was issued here on Monday.

Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) president Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser and its Legislature party leader in the state Assembly Ashok Kumar were on Saturday roughed up by their party activists who charged them with “ignoring genuine workers” in allotment of tickets.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, generally considered a disciplined party unlike the RJD and the JD(U) in Bihar, on Friday witnessed large-scale vandalism at its state headquarters when over a thousand angry workers protested against allocation of party tickets by breaking office furniture.

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.

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.