Manjhi calls truce with Paswan, says ‘fully satisfied’ with seat-sharing...
After getting more seats than offered earlier, former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday said he was "fully satisfied" with the seat-sharing arrangement among NDA allies for contesting the...
View ArticleNew big brother: BJP played its cards well by giving Jitan Manjhi 20 seats in...
The BJP, which so far played second fiddle in Bihar politics, had assumed a new big brother role – the party will contest 160 seats, a number the BJP leaders had been quoting for long. Ram Vilas Paswan...
View ArticleRomance over? Aspirational allies of BJP battle over seats ahead of Bihar polls
Two days ago it looked like that the BJP leadership in Bihar had amicably settled seat sharing negotiations with three of its allies – Ram Vilas Paswan of LJP, Upendra Kushwaha of RLSP and Jitan Ram...
View ArticleBJP allies RLSP, LJP name candidates for Bihar polls as politicians denied...
Two constituents of BJP-led NDA - RLSP and LJP - on Monday announced names of their 17 and nine candidates for the Bihar polls. The post BJP allies RLSP, LJP name candidates for Bihar polls as...
View Article‘Bihari’ is used as a derogatory term and my fight is to regain Bihar’s lost...
Suave, articulate and composed – that is the first impression you form of Chirag Paswan from Bihar. He does not look the archetypal cow-belt politician, and it does not have much to with his short...
View ArticleAhead of Bihar elections, sons of Paswan and Lalu Prasad Yadav engage in war...
In Bihar, after RJD chief Lalu Prasad and union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, it is now the turn of their sons to indulge in a war of words to generate more political heat The post Ahead of Bihar...
View ArticleAs Bihar heads for polls, tug-of-war breaks out between Dalit leaders, rebels
The battle for supremacy between two BJP allies as well as rumblings in the grand alliance are at play in many seats as 49 constituencies of the Bihar Assembly go to polls in the first phase of...
View ArticleMaggi: CM Fadnavis’ decision to challenge HC order will only hurt India’s image
This is not about Maggi and Nestle India alone; it is about sending out a message about India’s business environment The post Maggi: CM Fadnavis’ decision to challenge HC order will only hurt India’s...
View ArticleBihar Assembly election report card: Manjhi, Paswan failed to deliver for NDA
Ram Vilas Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi, two prominent Dalit leaders on whom BJP was banking to bring for NDA nearly 16 per cent votes of schedule castes, failed to deliver in the Bihar elections, as...
View ArticleBihar polls: Here’s how the prominent political families performed
Of 22 political dynasties that contested the recently concluded Bihar assembly elections, seven families won and 15 lost. The post Bihar polls: Here’s how the prominent political families performed...
View ArticleGrand alliance government will not last long, says Ram Vilas Paswan
LJP supremo and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday said the grand alliance will not take long to collapse due to "ego clash" between the RJD and the JD(U) resulting in mid-term poll in Bihar....
View Article‘Jungle raj is back’: Paswan flays ‘helpless’ Nitish Kumar govt after...
Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan attacked the Nitish Kumar government over the murder of an assistant sub-inspector of police in Hajipur, claiming a string of such killings showed that "jungle raj is...
View ArticleBihar firmly in grip of ‘jungle raj-2’, claims Ram Vilas Paswan
Expressing concern over spurt in crime ever since the Grand Secular Alliance government came to power with a thumping majority two months back, Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday claimed that...
View ArticleBy toeing Congress line on Indira, has Nitish Kumar reduced JP to political...
In this case political expediency seems to have taken over supposed socialistic ideology of Bihar chief minister. The post By toeing Congress line on Indira, has Nitish Kumar reduced JP to political...
View Article‘Every alternate day, someone is getting killed in Bihar’: LJP lashes out at...
Alleging that crime graph in Bihar was surging, LJP leader Chirag Paswan has said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was clearly not in control of the government. The post ‘Every alternate day, someone is...
View ArticleShani Shingnapur controversy: Activists’ group Bhoomata Brigade submits...
Bhoomata Brigade on Wednesday brought their fight to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, demanding that restrictions on women's entry into the temple be lifted. The post Shani Shingnapur controversy:...
View ArticleGovernment aims to computerise the PDS sector by March 2017, says Ram Vilas...
Government aims to computerise the PDS sector to help check pilferages and plug leakages by installing electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) devices at all fair price shops across the country by March 2017....
View ArticlePaswan bats for reservation in private jobs, says it’s essential to...
Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan said his party will continue to seek SC/STs reservation in private jobs to ensure representation of all sections of society The post Paswan bats for reservation in...
View ArticleConsumer Affairs minister Paswan pushes for stricter food safety practices;...
Pushing for stricter food safety practice, Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday pitched for a statutory warning 'not healthy food' on junk food packets like chips on the lines of...
View ArticleBihar liquor ban: Paswan threatens stir if restriction on toddy not lifted
The Union Minister sat on dharna with toddy sellers for nearly an hour to protest against the ban on toddy at public places in the state. The post Bihar liquor ban: Paswan threatens stir if restriction...
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