Bihar braces for election results today as a buoyant oppn, led by Tejashwi Yadav, and a hopeful NDA under CM Nitish will look to cross majority mark of 122 in 243-member assembly.
Counting for Bihar's 243 assembly seats stretches late into the night. BJP & RJD's vote share remain neck-and-neck, but trends show NDA has crossed halfway mark. Here are the day's updates.
Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, who spent 10 days campaigning in Bihar, is not just an expert in the Urdu poetry but has also read the Quran.
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has announced these polls will be his last but that has hardly rocked his party, unlike in 2014, when workers protested vociferously against his then decision to quit.
According to the Election Commission, the poll percentage at 1 pm was 34.82, higher than the corresponding figures for the first phase (33.10) and the second phase (32.82) of polls.
Congress’s Maskoor Usmani is contesting from Jale seat in Darbhanga, where Yogi Adityanath & JP Nadda campaigned in last 2 days, claiming credit for Ram Mandir, Article 370 removal.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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