CONG-RJD FEUD AND NDA RIFT CLOUDS FIRST PHASE CAMPAIGN IN BIHAR
NEW DELHI: As campaigning intensifies for the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections, both the ruling NDA and the Opposition Mahagathbandhan are heading toward a razor-thin and unpredictable contest. Internal dissensions, rejected nominations, and fractured seat-sharing deals have turned the political battlefield volatile just weeks before polling. The Mahagathbandhan, led by Rashtriya Janata Dal […]
BIHAR POLLS:OVER 1250 FILE NOMINATIONS FOR 121 SEATS IN 1-PHASE
NEW DELHI: Election fever gripped Bihar on Friday as the filing of nomination papers for the first phase of Assembly polls concluded, with the ruling NDA projecting a resolute campaign in sharp contrast to the disarray seen in the opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc. According to the Election Commission, more than 1,250 candidates filed their papers for […]
GRAND ALLIANCE STRIKES FRAGILE TRUCE IN BIHAR
GRAND ALLIANCE STRIKES FRAGILE TRUCE IN BIHAR, BUT CONG–RJD SEAT DEAL STILL HALF-COOKED Tejashwi Yadav projected as CM face; Mukesh Sahani’s VIP settles for 15 seats, but Congress–RJD formula awaits final seat. As the 2025 Bihar Assembly polls approach, the opposition “Grand Alliance” (Mahagathbandhan) led by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Indian National Congress […]
JUDICIAL PROBE INTO LEH VIOLENCE
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday announced that former Supreme Court Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan will inquire into the recent police action against protestors in Leh. Justice Chauhan, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, was a judge of the top court between 2009 and 2014. He had earlier been the Chief Justice […]
AMIT SHAH KEEPS CM OPTION OPEN AS INFIGHTING OPENS IN NDA IN BIHAR
NEW DELHI: With the nomination process for the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections concluding on Friday, cracks within the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) came sharply into focus after senior Janata Dal (United) leader and MLC Neeraj Kumar, a close confidant of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, openly criticised Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The […]
SUPREME COURT REJECTS OBC QUOTA HIKE IN TELANGANA
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon knocked down a Telangana government plea challenging the High Court’s interim stay on expanded reservations – past the 50 per cent cap set by the top court in its landmark 1992 Indra Sawhney judgment – for Other Backward Classes, or OBC, communities. The state argued that increasing […]
JDU SLASHES MUSLIM CANDIDATES TO ONLY 4 AS AGAINST 10 LAST TIME
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) has fielded Muslim candidates in four seats for the 2025 Bihar assembly elections, carefully balancing caste equations with community vote banks in the politically sensitive state. The four candidates are among the 44 names announced in the second list released by Bihar’s ruling party Thurssday […]
SC HEARING ON SIR INCONCLUSIVE, ADJOURNED TO NOV 4
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) June 24 directive for a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi is hearing the matter. The petitioners have raised concerns that the SIR process permits […]
18 IN THIRD BJP’S LIST TO COMPLETE 101 TALLY
NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Janata Party late Wednesday night released the third list of 18 candidates in Bihar to complete its tally of 101 candidates allotted to it in the seat-sharing distribution. Earlier in the day, the party had released its second list of 12 candidates while 71 names were released on Tuesday. The BJP […]
NITISH GETS 5 SEATS THAT CHIRAG PASWAN WANTED
NEW DELHI: A day after its ally BJP, the Nitish Kumar-led JDU has released its first list of 57 candidates for the upcoming Bihar election. Five ministers in the current government have retained their seats. Three strongmen, including Anant Kumar Singh, also feature in the JDU’s first list. Four women candidates are on the first […]
