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.

A day after RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav introduced his son Tejaswi to politics, his close aide and Buxar MP Jagadanand Singh’s son quit the party and joined Bihar’s ruling BJP on Friday, calling the RJD’s 15-year regime the state’s “black chapter”.

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.

Justice delayed is justice denied, but once crime-prone Bihar is setting an example by conducting speedy trials.

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.

An alert has been sounded across Bihar ahead of the September 24 verdict on the Ayodhya title case by the Allahabad high court.

The spectre of a repetition of the 2008 Kosi tragedy loomed larger on Bihar as the overflowing Gandak river’s waters gushed into over a dozen villages in the north-western Gopalganj district early on