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Family politics may harm Cong in Bihar
As the Congress gets busy in selecting candidates for the Bihar Assembly polls, the old strings of family politics are fervently at work in the party’s state unit, causing resentment and threatening t
Lalu loses his confidant, Akhilesh may join Congress
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s efforts to appease Bihar’s “upper castes” suffered a setback on Saturday when his confidant, former Union minister Akhilesh Prasad Singh, quit the party in protest agains
LJP tieup left no scope for Akhilesh
Sources said the RJD’s alliance with the Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP had left little possibility for former Union minister and Lalu Prasad Yadav confidant Akhilesh Prasad Singh’s nominees being accommoda
One more JD-U MP wants ties with BJP severed
Relations between Bihar’s ruling alliance partners JD(U) and BJP, already strained due to their differences of opinion on Gujarat’s BJP chief minister Narendra Modi, suffered another blow on Saturday
Karat: Rahul does not know history
CPI(M) on Friday hit back at Rahul Gandhi for dubbing Marxism as a “dead ideology”, saying the Congress general secretary does not know the history.
Modi wedge drives JD-U, BJP apart
The stalemate between Bihar’s ruling coalition partners JD(U) and BJP over the desirability of inviting Gujarat chief minister and BJP icon Narendra Modi to campaign in Bihar thickened on Thursday whe
Lalu hits Congress as hard as JD(U)
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav may be still officially with the Congress-led UPA, but his keenness to win back power in poll-bound Bihar and the challenges thrown on his way by the Congress have forced him to attack the grand old party as hard as the ruling JD(U)-BJP combine.
Cabinet race hints trouble for Munda
Too keen to become ministers in Arjun Munda’s government, MLAs from all the four parties in the alliance are now engaged in showing themselves in better light than other contenders in their parties so as to amplify their own suitability for a cabinet berth.
Caste will not be a factor in Bihar polls: Nitish
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar feels that caste will no more be a factor in the upcoming Assembly elections and that it will be relegated to the background for the first time.
Another showdown between top allies in Bihar?
Increasing possibilities of the BJP inviting Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to campaign for it for the Assembly polls in Bihar have heightened the JD(U)’s worries and set the stage for yet another showdown between Bihar’s two ruling allies.
