The governor accepted his resignation and asked him to continue as caretaker chief minister until a new government is formed, state BJP head Dilip Jaiswal told reporters.
Weak candidates and a lack of coordination with alliance partner RJD were also factors, says the Lok Sabha MP from Katihar in an interview with ThePrint.
It's small beginning but a big win for the Bihar story. And politicians are desperately using it to show that the turnaround has begun. It’s been a long time coming.
Final call rests with BJP central leadership on whether Thakur, the 25-year-old folk and devotional singer, will get a ticket to contest upcoming Bihar polls, it is learnt.
Deputy CMs Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Singh, along with CM Nitish Kumar, also took a ride in the 3.45-km-long elevated corridor from Patliputra Bus Terminal to Bhoothnath.
Political parties have urged the EC that polls will be held post Chhath to ensure higher voter turnout, with results expected before 22 November. The press conference is scheduled for 4 pm.
Day after being detained while marching to ECI HQ, Opposition MPs staged a protest Tuesday wearing T-shirts printed & the voter's face with ‘124 Not Out’ written on the back.
New Delhi: The Congress Thursday said the INDIA bloc is considering the unprecedented option of boycotting the upcoming Bihar assembly election as it will...
Months before polls, Bihar govt appointed Chirag Paswan’s brother-in-law Mrinal Paswan as chairperson of Scheduled Caste Commission, & Jitan Ram Manjhi’s son-in-law as its vice chairperson.
The dogs will survive whatever orders are passed. But institutions are more fragile than we imagine. Once lost, the trust they embody takes generations to rebuild.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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