Motihari (Bihar): Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday locked horns with Rahul Gandhi over central funds to Bihar and dared the Congress leader to stop the allocation to the state, saying the funds are not given at somebody's 'meharbani' (favour). “Allocation of funds to the state by the Centre is in keeping with settled norms and provisions...it is not at somebody's meharbani (favour)," Kumar told an election meeting here while...
06:02 PM, Oct 15, 2010
Patna: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Monday nominated his wife Rabri Devi for two Assembly seats as he released the second list of candidates for the third and fourth phase of elections in Bihar. Lalu put up former Union minister and his trusted lieutenant Jaiprakash Narain Yadav to take on Putul Devi, widow of Independent MP Digvijay Singh in the by-poll to the Banka parliamentary constituency. "We offered Putulji to...
01:50 PM, Oct 04, 2010
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will not campaign in Bihar during the upcoming Assembly elections as the BJP has kept him out of the list of its campaigners against the backdrop of reservations expressed by ally JD(U). The list of 40 star campaigners of BJP was submitted by the party to the Election Commission on Thursday as per the requirement, sources said in Patna on Friday. The list...
06:51 PM, Oct 01, 2010
Patna: The election process for Bihar Assembly elections began on Monday with filing of nominations for the first phase. In the first phase 47 of the 243 constituencies in the state would go to the polls on October 21. "The notification has been issued by the Election Commission for holding the first-phase on October 21," Additional Chief Electoral Officer Anshumali said. The notification was issued by the order of Governor...
03:27 PM, Sep 27, 2010
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday finalised a list of 70 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. The names of the candidates were decided after a meeting at 10 Janpath attended by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and All India Congress Committee in-charge of Bihar, Mukul Wasnik. The names of the candidates will be released later. The party is going to fight alone in the all...
04:20 PM, Sep 22, 2010
New Delhi: The question whether Narendra Modi will campaign in the Bihar polls continues to pose a dilemma for the BJP, with a senior leader on Monday saying that the Gujarat Chief Minister will be part of the canvassing team but later retracted his statement. "All stalwart leaders of the party will be part of the joint campaign for the Bihar Assembly polls," BJP vice President Muktar Abbas Naqvi told...
05:51 PM, Sep 13, 2010
New Delhi: Bihar will go to polls in six phases spread over a month from October 21, the Election Commission announced on Monday. The first phase on October 21 will have polling for 47 seats while the second phase will be held on October 24 in 45 seats. The third phase will be on October 28 for 48 seats, fourth on November one (42), fifth on November nine (35) and...
06:12 PM, Sep 06, 2010
New Delhi: Overcoming last-minute hiccups, Lalu Prasad-led RJD and Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP on Monday clinched an alliance for coming assembly elections in Bihar in which they will get 168 and 75 seats respectively. Lalu Prasad will be chief ministerial candidate of the alliance while LJP Bihar unit chief Pashupati Kumar Paras, younger brother of Paswan, will be the deputy chief minister aspirant. Uncertainties had gripped the tie-up in the...
07:41 PM, Aug 16, 2010
Patna: An Election Commission (EC) team began a two-day Bihar visit on Sunday to oversee preparations for the forthcoming Assembly polls in the state, an official said. The team, headed by Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi, arrived in Patna on Sunday afternoon and held a meeting with representatives of political parties later in the evening. "Political parties' representatives, particularly the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal, Lok Janshakti Party and Congress complained...
10:10 AM, Aug 09, 2010
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday blamed Congress for the plight of the minority community of the country in an apparently bid to woo Muslims voters ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls in the state. "The Congress cannot absolve itself of the blame for the poor condition of the minority community as it has ruled the country for the better part of the 63 years since independence," he...
11:37 AM, Jul 02, 2010
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is the most sought after BJP leader across the country. Hindu Hriday samrat to some, a CEO to corporate world and a rabble-rouser to his opponents. Whatever he does, it always generates a loud impact. Now as he gets embroiled in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation over the ad with his NDA ally Bihar’s Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, questions are being raised...
12:51 AM, Jun 15, 2010
New Delhi: BJP leaders Narendra Modi and Varun Gandhi are not needed for campaigning for the coming assembly elections in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar suggested today. "Elections in Bihar will be held on the basis of the performance of our government. This is not national elections but state assembly elections. Workers of (state unit of) BJP are capable of putting forth their views before the people," the leader of...
11:56 PM, Apr 10, 2010
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