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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicBihar elections

Topic: Bihar elections

A new Tejashwi emerges ahead of Bihar polls — more mature and in control of RJD

Tejashwi Yadav has the full backing of his dad, RJD chief Lalu Prasad. Colleagues & opponents say he’s definitely done better than before in the run-up to Bihar polls.

BJP lashes out at ‘vote-cutter’ Chirag Paswan, says party has no ‘B or C team’ for Bihar polls

The LJP’s recent criticism of Nitish Kumar, while praising PM Modi, has created speculation about a tacit alliance between the two parties to undermine the Bihar CM.

Film-maker Anubhav Sinha says BJP’s Bihar rap ‘blatant copy’ of his song on migrants

Anubhav Sinha made his allegations against BJP in a Twitter post Thursday, where he said it is ‘beyond my means and powers to take this to court’.

Chirag Paswan alleges Nitish Kumar insulted his father, worked against LJP in 2019 polls

Paswan said his party was never 'a fan of Nitish Kumar's style of politics' and stated that his parting of ways with the JD(U) had nothing to do with seat sharing for Bihar polls.

‘Bihar Mein Ee Ba’ is BJP’s reply in rap to Manoj Bajpayee song on migrant crisis

In a two-minute Bhojpuri song titled ‘Bihar Mein Ee Ba’ (this is what Bihar Has), the BJP is boasting the achievements of the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government.

Bihar CM and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar to begin virtual campaigning from Monday

Nitish will campaign in 11 constituencies Monday evening, followed by 11 Tuesday morning & 13 that evening. He will start travelling for campaigning Wednesday.

Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, Sachin Pilot in Congress’ list of star campaigners for Bihar polls

Sources said Rahul Gandhi would hold at least six rallies with two in each of the three phases of Bihar elections to be held on 28 October, 3 and 7 November.

‘Sympathy wave’ in Bihar after Paswan death, but parties not sure if it will impact polls

In 2015 Bihar assembly polls, Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP won only two of the 42 seats it contested. Under his son Chirag, LJP has decided to go solo this time and contest 143 seats.

Bihar Congress wants Rahul & Priyanka Gandhi to hold 9 rallies, will make Hathras poll issue

Congress says 'biggest poll issues' in Bihar will be CM Nitish Kumar’s handling of Covid and the migrant crisis, but it will also raise Sushant death case and Hathras 'gang rape'.

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray to campaign for Shiv Sena candidates in Bihar election

Other Sena leaders who would campaign in Bihar include Aaditya Thackeray, Sanjay Raut, Arvind Sawant and Priyanka Chaturvedi.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.