The campaigning for the primary phase of Bihar Assembly Elections is about to finish by today evening. The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), comprising, among others, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal(United), is up against the opposition 'Mahagathbandhan,' comprising the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress and Left parties. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressing rallies, top leaders of both the alliances are making a last-ditch effort to woo the voters as just one day is left for campaigning for the primary phase of ele ... Read More

The committee (EC) has suspended two excise superintendents and transferred four others for not demonstrating "alertness and effectiveness" within the seizure of liquor in poll-bound Bihar, a politician said.   The EC gave the directives during this regard during a review meeting held via video-conference with the observers of the 78 Assembly constituencies that are getting to polls within the first round of the three-phase Bihar polls on October 28, Additional Chief Electoral Officer (ACEO) Sanjay Kumar Singh said during a release on Friday.   The poll p ... Read More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his handling of coronavirus pandemic in Bihar as he addressed his first rally within the state for the election starting next week. "If Bihar had not acted fast, the pandemic would have killed many, many more. it might are unimaginable mayhem. But today Bihar, having battled Covid, is now celebrating the festival of democracy," he said at a joint rally in Sasaram with Mr Kumar. He also attacked the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), saying before the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Bihar ... Read More

Union minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman released the Bharatiya Janata’s (BJP’s) poll manifesto for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections on Thursday. She said that when a vaccine to treat the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is out there for production at a mass scale, it'll be provided for free of charge to everyone in Bihar.   “As and when the vaccine candidates that are currently under various levels of trials within the country get scientific clearances and a go-ahead for production, the people of Bihar will get a vaccination for free of charge once ... Read More

Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav's promise of 10 lakh jobs and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's sharp response thereto has fueled an acrimonious back-and-forth within the campaign for the Bihar election that starts next week. Yesterday, Nitish Kumar commented at a rally that his Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) rival's promise was an impossible one that nobody within the world can keep.   "Where will you get the cash to pay the salaries? From an equivalent scam that you're in jail? Or will you print fake money," the Chief Minister sneered at the rally in Go ... Read More

During the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, a Muslim voter in Siwan had explained why it didn’t interest them that the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) was aligned with the BJP. As reasons, he listed that the varsity uniform given by the Nitish government was the simplest dress his son had ever owned, and said he had no problems with the BJP, “the B team” of the JD(U).   That was the time when the recognition of Nitish Kumar, still in his first term as Chief Minister and riding high on the changes he had ushered into the tired landscape of Bihar, was at its peak. That election ... Read More