[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi delivered his first response to the Congress Party’s poor performance in the Bihar assembly election, describing the contest as “unfair from the very outset” and insisting that the party, along with the wider INDIA alliance, will undertake a detailed review of what went wrong. In a post on…
[ad_1] Flashback: On June 4, 2024, as the results started trickling in, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in shock. The party had set the ambitious “400 paar” target for itself in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the party failed to get a majority on its own for the first time since 2014.The scale of…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The two senior Bihar NDA constituents — the BJP and chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) — may have swept the assembly elections between themselves. But it was Union minister Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), which brought in the extra seats and powered the coalition’s march beyond the 200-seat…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav defeated BJP’s Satish Kumar by 14,532 votes from his family bastion Raghopur assembly constituency, which faced a tense battle marked by repeated swings in lead and trails.Tejashwi was trailing by nearly 5,000 votes until the 16th round of voting before bouncing back to maintain a…
[ad_1] In Bihar’s political theatre, irony has always been the opening act, and Nitish Kumar, the master of reinvention, once again turned contradiction into victory.With the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) sweeping the assembly elections by surging past the half-way mark, one wonders what could have been the X-factor that made the people of one of…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Chief minister Nitish Kumar–led National Democratic Alliance is set to retain power in Bihar — this time with an even stronger mandate. According to the latest trends, the NDA is projected to win around 200 seats in the 243-member Bihar assembly.In a standout performance, the BJP is leading in 91 seats while…
[ad_1] The National Democratic Allaince (NDA) seems set to secure a historic win in Bihar with trends showing it is well on its way to secure a whopping 208 seats in the 243-seat assembly. The 2025 polls unfolded against the backdrop of a meticulously crafted campaign focused on stability, development, and inclusivity, where the NDA’s…
[ad_1] Benjamin Franklin ostensibly said once: “There are only two certainities in life – death and taxes.” Little did he know, there’s a third: Nitish Kumar taking oath as Bihar Chief Minister. Since his first oath when he lasted seven days, Nitish Kumar has taken oath as Chief Minister a total of nine times (six…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The opposition kept up its “vote chori” chorus on Friday as chief minister Nitish Kumar’s NDA appeared headed for a sweeping return to power with a commanding mandate.Early trends, after several rounds of counting, showed the NDA leading in 200 seats. With 122 needed for a simple majority, touching the 200 mark…
[ad_1] File photo of Tejashwi Yadav NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, the Mahagathbandhan’s chief ministerial face, is locked in a close contest in his family bastion, Raghopur. Early trends from the Election Commission of India show a narrow fight, with Tejashwi polling 23,531 votes, slightly ahead of BJP’s Satish Kumar Yadav, who has secured…