Bihar Parliament Elections
You can follow the Bihar Parliament elections closely by following our news updates relating to the Bihar polls. The election process has already started with the filling of nominations.
The Parliament elections in Bihar is being held in 4 phases and will end on May 7. Counting will be taken up May 16. Following are the dates of the phases of elections in Bihar - April 16, April 23, April 30, May 7.
The Congress is after ages, going alone in all constituencies in the Bihar elections. It is going to be a 3 way fight between the BJP-Nitish alliance and the RJD and the Congress. It remains to be seen whether the congress will regain some of its past glory or be wiped out totally. Follow the pulse of the Bihar Elections with us.
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NEW DELHI: Buoyant after its impressive Firozabad bypoll win, Congress is planning to replicate the go-it-alone policy in next year's Bihar elections as ... Yadunath Pandey, former president of BJP's undivided Bihar unit said, "the BJP is the only party having will power to eradicate corruption." Sify - Nov 19, 2009 Nearly 20 million eligible voters in Bihar are still without voter identity cards - making for a giant task for the Election Commission ahead of assembly ...
Hindustan Times - 8 hours ago Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had accused the Union government of encroaching upon the powers of states. The home ministry on Friday urged civil society ...
Expressindia.com - Nov 19, 2009 “I have been suggested that I should not go for election campaign in Jharkhand, where naxalites rule prevails,” Prasad, also former Bihar chief minister ... ... carved out of Bihar in November 2000, have discovered their personal El Dorados. A cursory look at the declaration of wealth before assembly elections ...
HAZARIBAG: With a view to conducting the forthcoming assembly elections peacefully, a high-level meeting of police officials of Bihar and Jharkhand was held ...
Times of India - Nov 19, 2009 PATNA: The BJP has ridiculed the Congress's claims of the party's revival in Bihar saying the Congress leaders were distorting facts and were "weak in ... ... Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Karnataka have not completed elections there and formal election of Nitin Gadkari may only ... Times of India - Nov 17, 2009 It also okayed the draft of Bihar Right to Information (Amendment) Rules 2009. An applicant will now have to file separate application to get information on ...
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Bihar Assembly Elections
Supreme Court on Bihar Elections
The Supreme Court has given its judgment - The dissolution of the Bihar Assembly was unconstitutional but polls can proceed as they are on. This has put the Supreme Court itself under a question mark. On the one hand it says the dissolution in Bihar was unconstitutional and on the other while it still has a chance to save perhaps hundreds of lives and millions of rupees, it gives a lame excuse of the poll process having started. Nominations are yet to be filed , deployment of troops yet to made, candidates holding on for a final pronouncement have not yet gone full blast on campaign and the Supreme court says the process has started and cannot be stopped.
Talk Between Congress and Paswan Failed
 New Delhi: Congress continued its efforts to rope in LJP Chief Ram Vilas Paswan in a RJD-led alliance of UPA partners for the Bihar Assembly elections, but appeared to have failed to make any headway. AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh had a 90-minute talk with the Union Minister amid reports of Paswan insisting that his party would be part of a third front in Bihar comprising parties opposed to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad.
Talk Between Congress and Paswan Failed
RJD to meet President today against EC decision on photo I-cards
A high level delegation of the RJD would call on President APJ Abdul Kalam in New Delhi today, urging him to intervene in the Election Commissions directive making possession of photo identity cards (PICs) mandatory for casting votes in coming Bihar Assembly election. RJD spokesperson Shivanand Tiwari told reporters in Patna on Tuesday that the ECs order was in contravention to the constitutional provisions which had authorised any person above age of 18 to exercise his franchise in hustings.
RJD to meet President today against EC decision on photo I-cards
President's rule in Bihar Extended
The Union Cabinet has decided to extend President's rule in Bihar by another six months. On the other hand the Supreme Court has asked the Congress led government to explain why it had imposed President's rule in Bihar. The court wanted to know about the documents on the basis of which President's Rule was imposed in the state an that too in such a hurry.
Bihar Assembly dissolution: SC issues notice
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