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RJD leader who criticised Rahul Gandhi has a theory why Sushil Modi isn’t Dy CM
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Prashasti Singh | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 17, 2020 02:09 PM IST
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushil Modi was dropped from Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s cabinet and replaced as deputy chief minister by his party, after having served at the post since 2005.
Why blaming Congress in Bihar is a red herring
By Roshan Kishore and Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 17, 2020 05:28 AM IST
The Congress managed to win 19 out of the 70 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) it contested in these elections. In 2015, it won 27 out of the 41 it had contested. Compared to 2015, 2020 looks like an underperformance.
Nitish Kumar forms government in Bihar, inducts new Cabinet. Full list of ministers here
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Arpan Rai | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 16, 2020 05:45 PM IST
Here is the full list of ministers inducted in chief minister Nitish Kumar’s cabinet.
‘BJP leaders grabbed my feet, started crying,’ RJD takes swipe at Nitish Kumar
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 16, 2020 02:12 PM IST
Nitish Kumar earlier said he did not want to become the chief minister, but he was insisted by BJP leaders.
Bihar: RJD to boycott NDA’s oath-taking ceremony today
By Anirban Guha Roy | Hindustan Times, Patna
UPDATED ON NOV 16, 2020 02:02 PM IST
RJD to boycott swearing-in ceremony of Nitish Kumar as Bihar CM
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Shivani Kumar | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 16, 2020 01:39 PM IST
Nitish Kumar will take oath as the chief minister of Bihar for the fourth consecutive term in Patna at a ceremony today. It will be held at around 4:30 pm.
Rahul Gandhi was picnicking while PM Modi focused on Bihar polls: RJD’s Shivanand Tiwary
By Anirban Guha Roy| Edited by Sabir Hussain | Hindustan Times, Patna
UPDATED ON NOV 16, 2020 12:27 AM IST
Rashtriya Janata Dal national vice president Shivanand Tiwary also accused the Congress of being a ‘non-serious player’.
Rahul Gandhi was on picnic in Shimla during Bihar polls: RJD’s Shivanand Tiwari
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Deepali Sharma | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 15, 2020 11:38 PM IST
The NDA won the assembly election with 125 seats while the RJD-led Grand Alliance won 110 seats.
Nitish Kumar’s most challenging term
UPDATED ON NOV 15, 2020 07:47 PM IST
With a constrained mandate, the CM will have to deliver on both politics and governance
The Bihar mandate has lessons for all parties
By Shashi Shekhar
UPDATED ON NOV 15, 2020 07:45 PM IST
The biggest the challenge before NDA will be to fulfil the promise of employment. There are around 450,000 vacant government posts in Bihar.
Nitish Kumar elected NDA leader, to take oath as Bihar CM tomorrow
By Vijay Swaroop | Edited by Sohini Sarkar | Hindustan Times, Patna
UPDATED ON NOV 15, 2020 03:01 PM IST
Kumar was elected unanimously at the meeting in the presence of defence minister Rajnath Singh, who was appointed as an observer by the BJP central leadership. Kumar will take oath as the chief minister for the seventh time on Monday.
NDA meet to choose its leader in Bihar begins
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Prashasti Singh | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 15, 2020 12:58 PM IST
Senior BJP leaders including Amit Shah have reiterated on several occasions their intent of standing by their promise of making Nitish Kumar the chief minister.
Nitish Kumar on wafer-thin majority, won’t last long as CM, says RJD’s Manoj Jha
By Asian News International | Posted by Shivani Kumar | New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 15, 2020 06:27 AM IST
Jha accused Nitish Kumar of suppressing the people’s mandate with a decree by switching from the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in 2017 and said that the people of Bihar have woken up now.
RJD considers legal challenge to Bihar poll results, EC says election was transparent
By Anirban Guha Roy | Hindustan Times, Patna
UPDATED ON NOV 13, 2020 09:12 PM IST
Tejashwi Yadav had alleged that the irregularities in the counting process had led to the Grand Alliance losing 20 seats that stopped it from reaching the majority figure of 122.
From Bihar, a message for Indian politics, writes Barkha Dutt
By Barkha Dutt
UPDATED ON NOV 13, 2020 08:51 PM IST
The national Opposition does not exist, the Congress’s claim to this role is cosmetic, and only regional parties can be a bulwark against the BJP
Acquisitive Cong’s failure to deliver behind alliance’s loss
By Vinod Sharma | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 13, 2020 08:11 AM IST
Of the seventy seats it wrested in the seat-sharing talks, the party won an embarrassing 19, just eight more than the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist’s 11 out of 19.
‘People’s mandate in our favour’: Tejashwi Yadav
By Anirban Guha Roy | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 13, 2020 08:06 AM IST
The 31-year-old leader, who was elected the leader of the GA, said the opposition alliance would move court if the Election Commission does not give satisfactory reasons for the rejection of a huge number of postal ballots.
What does caste profile of MLAs in Bihar tell us about politics?
By Gilles Verniers and Basim U Nissa
UPDATED ON NOV 16, 2020 04:59 PM IST
Between those who claim that Bihar’s politics is determined entirely by caste and those who hold that caste-party alignments have now become fluid and thus made caste irrelevant in the face of other factors, there is necessarily a large space wherein lies the truth.
‘You dream of becoming CM after getting 40 seats’: RJD’s Manoj Jha taunts Nitish Kumar
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kanishka Sarkar | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 12, 2020 01:51 PM IST
In all, NDA partners - BJP, JD(U), Vikassheel Insaan Party, and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) - together won 125 seats of the 243 assembly constituencies whereas the RJD-led Grand Alliance failed to cross the majority mark of 122 seats as it won on 110 seats.
Bihar Election 2020: Tirhut, Mithilanchal and Kosi regions put NDA in lead
PUBLISHED ON NOV 12, 2020 09:31 AM IST
The Grand Alliance lost much ground in Kosi and Seemanchal because of Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and division in the Muslim votes
LJP did well, will fight 2025 elections: Chirag Paswan
By Arun Kumar | Hindustan Times, Patna
UPDATED ON NOV 12, 2020 04:16 AM IST
The LJP could win only one of the 137 seats it had contested, though its presence with 25 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rebel leaders did manage to cut JD (U) size and bring its number much below the BJP figures for the first time since 2005.
Bihar Election 2020 Results: More MLAs with criminal records make it to assembly
By Arun Kumar | Hindustan Times, Patna
UPDATED ON NOV 12, 2020 06:09 AM IST
This is higher than the last time as out of 243 MLAs analysed during Bihar assembly elections in 2015, 142(58%) MLAs had declared criminal cases against themselves.
The age factor behind Grand Alliance setback
By Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa and Roshan Kishore | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 12, 2020 03:54 AM IST
Among candidates in age-groups 36-50 and 51-65, the NDA and the MGB candidates have a broadly similar strike rate (seats won as a share of seats contested).
Bihar Assembly Election 2020: More women candidates but fewer winners
By Gilles Verniers and Samridhi Hooda
UPDATED ON NOV 12, 2020 10:48 AM IST
Of the 84 women candidates who fought in the Bihar elections, voters only sent 26 of them to the state assembly
From 2005 to 2020: Rise and fall of Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) in state elections
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kunal Gaurav | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 11, 2020 05:50 PM IST
NDA got a landslide majority in 2010 Bihar Assembly elections after a remarkable five-year rule which also helped Nitish Kumar earn the title of ‘Sushasan Babu’.
Bihar Election 2020: RJD decimated in Seemanchal
By Aditya Nath Jha | Hindustan Times, Patna
PUBLISHED ON NOV 11, 2020 04:42 PM IST
RJD workers in Seemanchal are believed to have been unsatisfied with the ticket distribution and this may have contributed to the party’s loss in the region
Bihar Election 2020: Speculation rife over BJP’s share in NDA cabinet
By Anirban Guha Roy | Hindustan Times, Patna
UPDATED ON NOV 11, 2020 04:22 PM IST
The maximum number of ministers in the Bihar cabinet permissible is 36, as the size is capped at 15% of the 243-member legislative assembly
Bihar Election 2020: Shiv Sena mouthpiece heaps praise on Tejashwi Yadav
By Swapnil Rawal | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON NOV 11, 2020 02:20 PM IST
In the election, the RJD emerged as the single largest party with 75 seats. The RJD-led alliance won 110 seats while the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 125
Bihar Election 2020: JD(U) wins Hilsa seat by just 12 votes
By Press Trust of India | Posted by Mallika Soni | Press Trust of India
PUBLISHED ON NOV 11, 2020 11:40 AM IST
The result has been contested by the rival RJD.
Bihar election results: 8 seats where victory margin was less than 1,000
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi | HIndustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 11, 2020 08:02 AM IST
Bihar Assembly election 2020: In Hilsa, the JD(U) candidate won just by 12 votes, according to the Election Commission website, a result contested by the RJD. The NDA got past the majority mark of 122 late on Tuesday after more than 15 hours of counting of votes.
