With RJD’s popularity nosediving and Nitish’s JDU not in the pink of its health, the non-BJP vote bank will be looking for an alternative political platform.
One of the fallouts will be the impact in narrative building for the ruling BJP as the loss happens to be in its bastion right after the massive student protest in New Delhi.
With an estimated 1.6 lakh of its 3.79 lakh voters being upper-caste Hindus, Bankipur has been a BJP stronghold for three decades. Prashant Kishor has breached that fortress decisively.
Jan Suraaj has fielded founder Prashant Kishor for the Bankipur bypoll, setting up a direct battle with the BJP in a constituency vacated by national president Nitin Nabin's Rajya Sabha move.
Bankipur seat fell vacant after BJP national president Nitin Nabin resigned as MLA following his election to Rajya Sabha in April. The byelection will be held on 30 July.
The JSP founder, who visited Bharat Bhushan Tiwari's family Wednesday, asked whether role of Bihar home minister, STF officer who gave the order to shoot & Home dept will be probed.
The number of rape cases on record has fallen through the years. Either the police are reluctant to register FIRs, or survivors are losing faith in the criminal justice system.
IAF chief Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh has ruled out a separate drone force, saying that UAVs must operate with fighters and other existing technology.
Modern India might have been conjured up in the image of Gandhi. But India was never a Gandhian state. Founders of the Republic, be it Nehru or Patel, nursed zero such notions.
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