Bihar polls: 'Serving poor requires someone with 56-inch chest', says JP Nadda
October 15, 2020 18:28 ISTAddressing a public rally ahead of the Bihar elections in Karakat town of Rohtas district on October 15.
Addressing a public rally ahead of the Bihar elections in Karakat town of Rohtas district on October 15.
Former MP Kali Prasad Pandey, who is set to contest on the Congress ticket from the Kuchayakot assembly seat reveals why he left LJP and returned to Congress.
Kali Pandey, who switched over from the LJP, said it was a homecoming for him as he had earlier extended support to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1984 when he was a member of the Lok Sabha.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti will attend a meeting of major political parties in Srinagar today. National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah has convened the meeting.
Tejashwi Yadav, who has been chosen by the anti-NDA grouping as its chief ministerial candidate, is seeking re- election from Raghopur seat he won on his maiden outing in electoral politics in 2015.
In the last assembly elections, the LJP won just two of the 42 seats it contested while many believe that Chirag himself is still a novice in politics.
Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) chief Sharad Yadav's daughter Subhashini Raj Rao joined Congress on October 14, ahead of Bihar assembly elections.
Speaking to media in Bengaluru on October 14, Karnataka Congress president, DK Shivakumar spoke on Central Crime Branch's (CCB) chargesheet naming two Congress corporators in Bengaluru violence.
The Bihar elections will be held in three phases. Elections for the first phase will take place on October 28 on 71 Assembly constituencies, elections for the second phase on 94 seats will take place on November 3, and the third phase poll on 78 Assembly seats on November 7.
Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai attended a public rally in Bihar's rally ahead of Bihar elections 2020. Rai said, "Terrorists will escape Kashmir and take shelter in Bihar if RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) is elected to power in the state." Bihar elections will start from October 28 to November 07.
Several workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were detained on Tuesday after they launched a protest outside the Siddhivinayak temple in Maharashtra. Attacking the Uddhav Thackeray government, the BJP workers through their protest demanded that all temples in Maharashtra be reopened for devotees. The party is holding similar protests across the state.
Anant Singh, the Bahubali MLA of Mokama, has got the support of RJD. RJD has made Jailed Anant Singh its candidate from Mokama
Bihar is the first state where a major election is being held amid the Covid-19 pandemic. All 243 Assembly seats in the state will vote in three phases: October 28, November 3, and November 7. Votes will be counted on November 10.
Chirag Paswan, who is being seen in his party as a potential chief ministerial candidate, has taken on chief minister Nitish Kumar sensing an imminent end to his time at the helm
If a bahubali (strongman) politician or one accused of rape cannot fight an election in Bihar, his wife surely can. Most mainstream parties in Bihar have fielded wives of strongmen with criminal records in the forthcoming assembly elections in a worrying trend, feel experts.
Maharashtra Governor wrote to CM Uddhav Thackeray, seeking re-opening of places of worship with COVID precautions. "I wonder if you're receiving any divine premonition to keep postponing re-opening or you've suddenly turned 'secular' yourselves, the term you hated?" letter states
While speaking to media in Mumbai on October 13, Shiv Sena's veteran leader Sanjay Raut spoke on matter if his party will fight Bihar elections in alliance with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
The BJP has termed National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah's remark on reinstating Article 370 with China's help, "seditious and anti-national" adding he had become a "hero in China".
Actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar, joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on October 12 in Delhi. She had resigned from Congress earlier today.
Even as the leaders claim that development is the key plank in the elections, the caste factor, however, has always been there and the strategy of all the parties hovers around this factor.
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