Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced that his government will implement quotas for the economically-backward among the unreserved category after getting a legal opinion about the appropriate modalities.

Kumar had quit the alliance, comprising the JD(U), the RJD and the Congress, in July 2017 after the CBI lodged an FIR against Yadav on corruption charges and the following strife between him and the RJD.

"Our stand on these controversial issues is old. There is no change in our stand. We have nothing to do with such issues," the JD-U President told the media here after holding his first Lok Sambad in 2019.   

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state, the BJP had won 22 out of 30 it contested while the LJP won six out of seven it contested in 2014.

Vajpayee passed away on August 16 after a prolonged illness. He was cremated with full state honours.

The latest victim being a construction firm owner, who was gunned down in broad daylight on Saturday in Darbhanga district. Hours before that a bank official was abducted from Gaya and killed.

  To a question whether a meeting with Congress president Rahul Gandhi was on the cards, he said "I need nobody's permission to meet anyone".

Ultimately the drive had to be deferred in view of Yadav's appeal in the Patna High Court against the eviction order.

Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Bhai Virender said his party would raise the "failures" of the Nitish Kumar-led government on law and order and scams. 

The Union Minister, who has accused Kumar of referring to him as "neech" (lowly) - a charge rejected by Kumar-led JD(U), took a dig at Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi over his defence of the chief minister over the issue.

Tejashwi Yadav tweeted photos of CCTV installed right above the boundary wall between his and the Bihar CM's house and accused Nitish of snooping.

  Kushwaha said he would also request Shah to clear the "confusion" over seat-sharing among the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents in the state at the earliest.

BJP president Amit Shah and JDU chief Nitish Kumar held a meeting in New Delhi on Friday to decide the seat sharing formula for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

State government employees, pensioners and family pensioners would now get a total DA of nine per cent in place of the existing seven per cent, cabinet secretariat department Principal Secretary Sanjay Kumar said.

The town is believed to have been named after Bakhityar Khilji, who is said to have invaded Bihar upon the direction of the then Sultan of Delhi Qutbuddin Aibak.

Recently, a student protesting against reservation hurled a sandal at Nitish Kumar but it missed the target by a few metres.  

Kumar expressed grief over the loss of lives and questioned the level of preparedness for the Dussehra function that was being held close to the railway tracks in Amritsar.

The Lalu Prasad-led party later clarified that the posters were not put up to belittle the chief minister, but criticise the government in the state.

Having worked for a number of parties as a poll strategist, Kishor has emerged as a trusted aide to the Bihar chief minister.

The man who threw slipper at the chief minister has been arrested.