Tejashwi was initially trailing, but he went into lead after 8th round of counting. Kumar wrested the lead, before Tejashwi snatched it back in round 19 & 20.
Naveen Yadav registers victory against his nearest rival & Bharat Rashtra Samithi candidate Maganti Sunitha Gopinath by a margin of nearly 25,000 votes.
VIP founder Mukesh Sahani comes from EBC community of the Mallahs, who constitute 2.66% of Bihar population. Mahagatbandhan brought him in in the hope of denting NDA's EBC votebank.
Mahagathbandhan had fielded Shashant Shekhar hoping to garner support of the youth as well as keeping caste combinations in mind in this urban constituency.
He termed the SIR as an 'electoral conspiracy', asserting that after Bihar, it won't be possible in other states, including West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh or any other state.
BJP's Devyani Rana wins J&K's Nagrota bypoll, contesting 1st time in a bypoll necessitated by death of her father & senior party leader Devender Singh Rana. NC's Shamim Begum comes in third.
As counting progresses, projections indicate a strong lead for the NDA, signalling what could be one of CM Nitish Kumar's most decisive electoral victories.
Liberty is not accepted in India as the ultimate goal of political systems. This is why, for instance, there is so much paranoia about foreign investments, wrote economist Ashok V Desai in 1995.
RBI data shows 26 states and Union Territories couldn’t regain pre-pandemic foreign tourist footfalls in 2024, but domestic tourism surged 27 percent compared to 2019.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
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