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Sunday, December 21, 2025
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Topic: Mahagatbandhan

India is welfare-first, so why would Bihar be different?

Bihar will evolve and eventually prosper. But the nature of the country’s political economy means that the journey for Bihar, and India, is slower than some would like.

Bihar polls: Not a VIP show, Mukesh Sahani fails to transfer EBC votes for Mahagathbandhan

VIP founder Mukesh Sahani comes from EBC community of the Mallahs, who constitute 2.66% of Bihar population. Mahagatbandhan brought him in in the hope of denting NDA's EBC votebank.

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

The old M-Y, Muslim-Yadav, is clashing with a new axis.

How INDIA bloc’s Bihar manifesto offers a clear blueprint to revive the state

The INDIA bloc’s plan for Bihar is detailed and specific, unlike the Jan Suraaj Party’s vague proposals and vacuous slogans of the NDA.

‘Even his son sees him as villain’: Bihar deputy CM on Lalu’s absence from Mahagatbandhan presser

Samrat Choudhary said that first the people of Bihar saw Lalu Yadav as a villain, now even RJD and Mahagathbandhan see the former CM as a villain.

In Bihar, smaller allies seek greater pound of flesh. NDA, Mahagathbandhan feel coalition pangs

Fragmentation of social justice politics has led to emergence of smaller parties without bandwidth to ensure victory but adding to poll numbers when they contest with larger allies.

Rahul eyes Congress gains in Bihar with 12-day ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra’

Rahul Gandhi, leading the yatra, will be joined by leaders from Mahagatbandhan & INDIA alliance in a hybrid rally across 23 districts in Bihar.

Bihar agriculture minister & RJD leader Sudhakar Singh resigns from Nitish Cabinet

Sudhakar was in news for his controversial statements, often directed at Mahagathbandhan government. Tejashwi called him and sought his resignation, RJD sources say.

‘BJP set example, Nitish followed suit’ — what Urdu press wrote about Bihar switcheroo

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

Bihar drama isn’t win for secularism. 3 things you are missing in your jubilation

Bihar drama is merely the latest manoeuvre by shrewd Nitish Kumar who has changed sides so often he must wake up every morning and struggle to remember who his allies are.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.