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.
If Rahul Gandhi's charges against ECI seem too strident today, they still pale in front of Lalu Prasad's fulminations against TN Seshan, for whom Bihar was the ultimate challenge.
Jha says RJD did not make a mistake in joining hands with Nitish in 2022 as Mahagathbandhan govt gave Lalu’s son Tejashwi the opportunity, as deputy CM, to execute his ideas.
As suspense over Nitish's next move continues, his current ally RJD & other Bihar parties hold urgent meetings. Once called 'Paltu Ram' by Lalu, he has a long history of making U-turns.
All these anecdotes are from ‘Nitish Kumar: Antarang Doston Ki Nazar Sae’ written by his college friend and State Disaster Management Authority vice-president Uday Kant Mishra.
Bihar CM lashed out at RJD’s Sunil Kumar Singh as well as JD(U) MLA Maheshwar Hazari & Congress MLA Ajit Sharma, it is learnt. BJP has claimed that a rebellion is brewing in JD(U).
Addressing press conference in Patna, Prashant Kishor says Bihar 'at the bottom of ladder in every index after 30 years' under Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar.
RJD chief Lalu says Congress ‘doesn’t bring votes’ in Bihar any more, but doesn’t give direct response to questions over future of alliance, says ‘we’ll see in future’.
Telangana CM K. Chandrashekar Rao is striving to form a non-BJP, non-Congress front at the national level. But Tejashwi Yadav’s ‘courtesy call’ is not believed to have yielded a positive result.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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