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.
... the assembly elections," declared the AICC Bihar in charge Jadish Tytler while addressing the block and district level party presidents here on Monday. ...
The LJP-RJD combination and the NDA will try to fight it out in Jharkhand before the 2010 Bihar election. Buoyed by the good show in the recently concluded ...
You are no longer railway minister and you haven't been Bihar's chief minister for nearly a decade? What do you do with your time? Araam (I relax). ...
With the beginning of the process for Kolasla by-election, people like Ramesh find no dearth of money to buy liquor. Due to continuous session of liquor ...
"Two chief ministers, one of Bengal and another of Bihar, went to God Almighty. First the Bihar CM asks God Almighty “when will my Bihar revive again? ...
A few days before the elections, a worker of the BJP was shot dead at Akkalkot. The suspicions pointed to Siddharam Mhetre of the Congress who was also a ...
Former Bihar CM and Union minister Lalu Prasad had been implicated in the multi-crore fodder scam, which first came to light in 1996, and was jailed for ...
Indeed, for life would have taken a predictable turn for this sturdy matriarch of Anandpur village in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district — 80 km northeast of ...
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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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.
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.