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Following a magnificient victory in Bihar assembly elections,  a number of leaders, including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee, will attend oath-taking ceremony Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar which is being described as “a new beginning of opposition unity in the country”. The Oath taking ceremony will take place on ...

During the election campaign in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “unparliamentary language” was one of the major reason why the BJP lost the Bihar battle this hideously, says BJP MP Bhola Singh on Tuesday. “Top party leaders including Modi are responsible for it (defeat),” the outspoken MP from Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency told the media here. “The BJP was not ...

Hours after the BJP lost miserably in the Bihar assembly polls on Sunday made many BJP worker to broke down as it became clear the party faced a massive debacle in the Bihar assembly polls. “We had not even dreamt of this kind of results. It’s a complete heartbreak for us,” said Satish, a young Bharatiya Janata Party worker, on ...

Even after leading in early trends of Bihar election results, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday conceded defeat in the final and later Bihar election results. “BJP lost only because of alliance arithmetic,” union minister Prakash Javadekar told the media. BJP vice president Prabhat Jha added: “We failed to understand people’s mind. We will have to change our election ...

Bihar election results yield the BJP-led alliance to captivate in accordance to the initial trends. The Sunday morning took initial early but crucial leads of BJP as officials began counting the millions of votes polled in the assembly elections. As per the early trends. Election Commission officials said the BJP and its allies were ahead of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) competing ...

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday gave a controversial statement on the opposition, BJP stating that it was important that the BJP loses the assembly elections in Bihar so that it realises that “hate politics” will not work in the country. “It is important that BJP lose Bihar so that they know that hate politics will not work in this ...

The polling began for third phase of the Bihar assembly elections on Wednesday morning in 50 of the 243 constituencies, spread across six districts, officials informed. The six districts where polling will be held are Patna, Saran, Vaishali, Nalanda, Bhojpur and Buxar. ates.Most of the 14,170 polling booths are set up in the rural areas. It says nearly 14.5 million ...

The third phase of assembly elections in Bihar on Wednesday came to an end with yet again castism to play the central role. Caste…Caste…Caste!! It reads everywhere. Although rivalries claiming for power are primarily focusing upon issues related to economic development, political activists and voters think it is caste which will finally determine who votes for who likewise every time. ...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged people to vote for his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar on Tuesday, a day ahead of the third phase of assembly polls. “I appeal to the brothers and sisters of Bihar to vote to make Nitish ji the CM of Bihar,” Kejriwal tweeted. He is a nice person, people should vote for him to be ...

Around 33% of the candidates for the second phase of the Bihar elections have proclaimed their criminal cases, with the BJP, JD-U and RJD leading with most number of such applicants, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said on Friday. There are 456 candidates in the second phase of the Bihar elections. Voting for 32 seats in the second phase ...