The Election Commission on Saturday said that it did not find Bharatiya Janata Party's promise of providing free coronavirus vaccine in its Bihar manifesto "violative" of the provisions of the model code. The poll panel said this in response to a complaint by RTI activist Saket Gokhale.
Bihar Assembly Election 2020: The state went to first of the three-phased polls to elect the next government on Wednesday. The voter turnout in the phase 1 of Bihar assembly polls was 54 per cent, with CEC saying it may rise further.
Bringing the 'Modi factor' to the fore of the poll campaign, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday devoted his speech at a BJP rally in Patna to development works undertaken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Bihar and said PM Modi will make it a "developed" state if the ruling NDA is voted back to power.
Senior BJP leader and Bihar Agriculture has landed himself in trouble after he visited a polling booth wearing lotus flower printed face mask while casting his vote. Returning Officer will file an FIR against Kumar for violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC), news agency ANI reported.
Former Bihar chief minister and the president of Hindustan Awam Morcha (Secular) Jitan Ram Manjhi is seeking a re-election from Imamganj. Uday Narayan Choudhary, a veteran Dalit leader and former Bihar assembly speaker, has been pitted from the seat as a candidate from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) has fielded Shobha Sinha, the daughter-in-law of Ramswaroop Pawan, a former MLA from Imamganj.
A voter waiting in queue to cast his vote suffered a heart attack and died at a polling booth in Bihar's Rohtas. The 50-year-old, identified as Heeralal Mahto, collapsed while he was standing in the queue for his turn to vote.
Confident of the 'Mahagathbandhan' getting two-thirds majority in the upcoming assembly election in Bihar, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday said providing jobs to unemployed youth would be a top priority for him and his government will also bring a legislation in the first assembly session to nullify the "anti-farmer" laws brought by the Centre.
Curtain came down on Monday over campaign for 71 assembly segments of Bihar which go to polls on October 28, in the first phase of elections. Leading the NDA charge, Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew down to address as many as three rallies where he urged the voters to vote Chief Minister Nitish Kumar back to power.
Shiv Sena chief and Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday addressed the party's Dussehra rally for the first time after holding the post of state's chief minister at Savarkar hall in Dadar.
Drawing sharp retorts from leaders of the ruling NDA, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday said that the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is tired and no longer able to manage Bihar.
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan -- who is contesting his first election in Bihar alone -- visited Sitamarhi today where he performed puja of Goddess Sita.
IndiaTV reporter Jyoti Mishra had a special conversion with RJD's Tej Pratap Yadav and here is what he had to say about upcoming Bihar Assembly election.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of having "insulted" the soldiers with his comment that nobody had intruded into Indian territory in Ladakh and asked as to when will the Chinese "be thrown out".
IndiaTV reporter Jyoti Mishra had a special conversion with the BJP MP Manoj Tiwari and here is what he had to say about upcoming Bihar Assembly election.
For the coming polls, Pappu Yadav, who formed the Jan Adhikar Party - Loktantrik (JAP-L) in 2015, has been named the chief ministerial candidate of the newly-formed Progressive Democratic Alliance (PDA) and is all set to take on both the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Grand Alliance. Pappu will contest the upcoming state election from Madhepura constituency. He will take on JDU's Nikhil Mandal and RJS's Chandrasekhar in Madhepura.
According to a recent study reflecting the opinion and perception of people in Bihar, more than 50 percent of the population are satisfied with the current administration.
Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha's son Luv Sinha is all set to enter the political circuit by contesting the assembly elections from his ancestral place in Bihar.
IndiaTV reporter Jyoti Mishra had a special conversion with the JAP ( Jan Adhikar Party) supremo Pappu Yadav and here is what he had to say about his plans for upcoming Bihar Assembly election.
Senior BJP leaders in Bihar have already begun to sense the mood of the voters, who are eager for change this time. Nitish Kumar ruled for 15 years in Bihar, first in alliance with the BJP, then joined Mahagathbandhan, and later walked out to forge alliance with the BJP again.
FM Sitharaman released the party's election manifesto in Patna. According to reports, the BJP election manifesto focuses on ‘Atmanirbhar Bihar’.
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