Grand alliance

The October 21 bypolls are being billed as the semifinal to the 2020 assembly elections, likely to be a fierce electoral battle for survival for the grand opposition alliance, mainly comprising of the RJD and the Congress, in Bihar. read more

The BJP, which is riding high on its Lok Sabha performance, is expected to offer less than half of the 288 Assembly seats to Sena for the state polls, while keeping other seats for itself and its smaller allies. read more

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis also promised his party and government’s continued support to the mathadi community. “With your blessing our government will come back to power. read more

The hoardings, put at vantage points in the state capital Patna, appear to be a clear message to many, including the BJP, that the NDA should fight the assembly elections under the leadership of chief minister Nitish Kumar. read more

The meeting of the Grand Alliance leaders was convened at Rabri Devi’s residence amid reports of dissent between the alliance partners. read more

Bypolls will be held on five assembly seats in Bihar which have fallen vacant after the MLAs representing them were elected as Members of Parliament in Lok Sabha elections earlier this year. read more

Backed by expertise of poll strategist Prashant Kishore, whose teams have been working clandestinely in all 24 districts for last six months, JD(U) leadership is confident of altering all the set poll equations in Jharkhand. read more

Only one out of 40 GA candidates in the fray could manage to win a seat (Kishanganj), while its rival coalition, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) swept the LS polls. read more

The announcement was made during the party’s national executive meeting here, in the presence of senior party leaders Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav, former MP and RJD state President Ramchander Purve. read more

Rabri Devi’s statement came a day after Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, a former Union Minister, said Nitish Kumar should join hands with non-BJP parties. read more

Congress won only on one seat in Bihar in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections --the Kishanganj seat- which comes under the Seemanchal region of the state. read more

The politics in last decade in Bihar has amply proved that Nitish Kumar has remained the pivot around which other parties have revolved to make their fortune. read more

The allies had contested the 2014 polls separately and won 185 seats (BJP had won 122, Sena had won 63). read more

Party MLA and former minister Abdul Jalil Mastan said that the Congress should “re-strategise” to improve its poll prospects. read more

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh categorically blamed party chief Lalu Prasad’s two sons, Tej Pratap and Tejashwi Yadav for the party’s rout in the state and suggested that they should introspect and act accordingly. read more