JP Nadda has visited Bihar thrice in 2 months. Party leaders from both sides say, given the high stakes, there has been a significant shift in BJP’s strategy in dealing with JD(U).
The BJP, learnt to be considering ousting Nitish as Bihar CM after the election, now needs him for the coalition govt at the Centre; 2025 Bihar assembly polls are also a factor.
Public support for Bihar’s longest-serving CM seems to be declining in Bihar, where people are promising to vote for Modi. There is also a surge of support for RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav.
Kumar claimed that Kishor was working for the BJP. The chief minister was responding to Kishor's claim that he spurned a recent request by by Kumar to lead the JD(U).
Justifying its split with BJP, JD(U) has claimed that PM Modi inducted then party leader R.C.P. Singh into Union cabinet without Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's consent.
Home minister Amit Shah interacted with MPs & MLAs while in Patna Sunday for meet of BJP's frontal organisations. Party and ally JD(U) have been airing differences on host of issues.
17 bulldozers & 2,000 cops deployed to demolish 75 allegedly illegal houses in Patna's Rajiv Nagar Sunday. BJP leaders link action to conflicts between their party & JD(U).
Some allege CM Nitish Kumar’s reaction to controversies has been subdued of late, especially since BJP emerged as senior alliance partner. But JD(U) defends CM.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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