The BJP, which had managed to retain power in Gujarat with a slender majority in the 2017 Assembly polls, has now improved its position ahead of the 2022 state elections by winning all eight seats in the bypolls held last week. The bypoll results announced on Tuesday has especially consolidated […]
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A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party scored more seats than regional ally JD(U), Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Modi credited chief minister Nitish Kumar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the victory, making it clear that Kumar would still remain the CM. “Credit goes to Modi, Nitish and people […]
In October 2013 when 23-year-old Tejashwi Yadav realised his cricketing career had reached a roadblock and decided to move to Bihar to begin his political inning, he got his trusted friend and companion along with him to the state. Tejashwi had then introduced Sanjay Yadav, who is just 5 years […]
An avid cricketer whose career never really took off, a political greenhorn who got power on a silver platter but failed to keep it, a scion of Bihar’s most powerful family who could not get past the 9th grade. That was Tejashwi Yadav until the 2020 assembly polls marked the […]
For close to 15 years, he ruled politically volatile Bihar with a paradoxical cocktail of stubborn ideology and pragmatic resilience, making friends with foes and foes with friends at will. Nitish Kumar’s unusual knack for spotting friends has ensured a fourth straight term for him in office despite the drastic […]
After winning 6 out of 7 assembly bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, CM Yogi Adityanath said that the results are an indication for the upcoming state assembly polls in 2022. While the BJP retained six seats, one seat went to Samajwadi Party. “The result of the by-election is public confidence in […]
Bihar Election Result 2020 LIVE Updates: Surmounting anti-incumbency of 15 years, a mutinous former ally, and a spirited challenge from a resurgent opposition that rose from its ashes like proverbial phoenix after the 2019 Lok Sabha poll debacle, Nitish Kumar- led NDA was back in power in Bihar with a […]
Political parties had started to ramp up their organisation machinery in preparations for 2012 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. The then Samajwadi Party state chief Akhilesh Yadav in starch-white kurta-pyjama and red cap was peddling his way through the state to mobilise support against Mayawati government. Congress having tasted success in […]
Nitish Kumar’s undivided constituency of women voters may have deserted him in the current Bihar elections and gone back to traditional forms of electoral choices. On April 1, 2016, Bihar was declared a dry state. The JD(U)-led government enforced a five-year jail term for first-time offenders. In 2018, the law […]
WASHINGTON: Some dramatic moves on immigration are expected in the early days of the Biden administration. Joe Biden will likely use executive orders to reverse some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial actions, rolling back moves that were a central feature of his administration and important to his base. The […]