Mukesh Sahani was miffed over the treatement meted out to him at Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi airport on Sunday.

Bihar Panchayati Raj Minister Samrat Chaudhary said that the state government is going to introduce an Act under which a person having more than two children would not be entitled to contest Panchayat elections.  

When asked about his views on the draft bill, Nitish Kumar told reporters in Patna,"It's not possible to ensure population control with a law."

Nitish Kumar started holding Janta Darbar in 2006 after becoming the Chief Minister of Bihar. He discontinued Janta Darbar in 2016.

Sushil Kumar Modi, who was the face of the BJP in Bihar politics for a long time, was once again sidelined by the party as he was denied a berth in the recent Union Cabinet in the reshuffle by the Modi government.

Notably, Chirag had opened a front against Kumar ahead of the assembly elections last year when he claimed that people of the state were yearning for a change in leadership.

From the JD-U, only Ram Chandra Prasad Singh (RCP Singh) was inducted and given the steel ministry, but Nitish Kumar did not congratulate him publicly on social media.

The JDU has 16 MPs in the Lok Sabha and the BJP 17 MPs from Bihar. The party argues that it should be given four berths.

Bihar Unlock: Universities, schools and colleges will reopen with 50 per cent attendance.

Madan Sahni, who represents Bahadurpur constituency in Bihar Assembly, said he was not even satisfied with the house or car that have been provided to him.

"Our first choice will be to contest as part of the BJP-led NDA and we hope it works out. We have had old presence in UP since the days of the erstwhile Samata Party, though we did not contest in 2017," said JDU secretary KC Tyagi

Chirag also said that he expected his alliance Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to reach out during the current crisis, but BJP's silence is unexpected for him. "If Hanuman (Chirag Paswan) has to seek help from Ram (PM Narendra Modi), then it's unfortunate. I expect Ram should play a role to solve the political crisis faced by hanuman" Paswan said

Janata Dal (United) MLA Gopal Mandal has said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's 'real chair' is in Delhi and called him is a 'PM material'.

On rumours of Cabinet expansion, the Chief Minister who is on a personal visit to New Delhi, said that it all depends on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

He said that his party has also written to the Election Commission, urging it to stop the Paras-headed faction from using its symbol and flag in its meeting.

Lok Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan on Wednesday blamed Janata Dal (United) for engineering the split in his party and rejected the decisions taken by the faction headed by his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, saying the party's constitution does not authorise them any such power.

According to reports, Pashupati Kumar Paras, who has been leading the rebellion, is most likely to be elected the new chief of the LJP in the coming days.

The decision was taken during a Cabinet meeting headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

Complete lockdown in Bihar was imposed on May 5 after the state was rattled by an explosive rise in COVID 19 incidence. More than half a million people have been infected since April while over 4,000 have died.

Nitish Kumar said a total of 718 vaccine express vans are moving around in the villages and similarly 121 such vehicles will start taking rounds of different localities of urban areas to help people get the jab at their doorsteps.