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Bihar Assembly elections: Lok Janshakti Party wants to contest in 143 seats

The parliamentary board of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) has told its national president Chirag Paswan that it wants to contest in 143 of the total 243 seats in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections

Ahead of Bihar Assembly polls, Jitan Ram Manjhi set to join NDA again

Ahead of Bihar Assembly polls, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) President and former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi is set to join the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Thursday

Bihar polls: BJP President Nadda calls meeting of all party MPs from state

Gearing up for the Bihar Assembly polls, BJP president JP Nadda has called a meeting of all the party MPs from the state on Saturday to finalise its poll strategy, sources said on Wednesday.

As Bihar Assembly election gets nearer, Dalit politics gathers momentum

Dalits constitute nearly 16 per cent of the vote and 38 seats are reserved for them in the Assembly

LJP urges EC to conduct Bihar Assembly polls after Covid-19 crisis subsides

In addition to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bihar is also facing a flood situation, with 13 districts severely affected by deluge

Paswan welcomes Bihar resolution against NRC and for retaining NPR format

Nitish Kumar said at the assembly earlier in the day that he had asked the Centre to drop "contentious clauses" from NPR forms and carry out its update the way it was do

Bihar Legislative Assembly passes resolution to conduct caste-based census

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was advocating conducting a caste-based census since a long time

Bihar Assembly polls: RJD resolves to project Tejashwi as its CM candidate

The resolution was passed by the RJDs national council meeting, which was for the first time held in the absence of its founding president Lalu Prasad

'Powerless' in Bihar Assembly

During the monsoon session of the Bihar Legislative Assembly that ended last week, the building plunged into darkness a few times, thanks to power failure, providing members an opportunity to aim barbs at each other. During one such spell of darkness, when a debate was going on, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nand Kishore Yadav shouted from the Opposition benches: "Bijendra babu, pranam (Mr Bijendra, accept my salutation)!" Nand Kishore Yadav was referring to state Energy Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav. Usually a good speaker, that time round, Bijendra Prasad Yadav was at a loss for words. A Rashtriya Janata Party leader later said the power minister must have been feeling quite "powerless".

Bihar assembly adjourned over attack on Dalit students

BJP legislators demands a judicial probe into the incident in which nearly a dozen people were injured

Watch your tongue

A Bihar Assembly member of the Janata Dal (United) from Gopalpur in Bihar warned his political rivals not to insult the party workers. Addressing a public gathering on Sunday, Gopal Mandal said he would chop off people's tongues if they criticised his party workers. Barely six months ago, Idris Ali, a Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member from West Bengal, had courted controversy when he threatened to "tear out the tongue" and "chop off the limbs" of a Left party leader. Last year, when political circles in Tamil Nadu were abuzz with conjecture that Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was unwell, a minister from her party said he would cut off the tongue of anyone, who talked about her health.

NDA attacks Nitish govt over law & order issue in Bihar

Bihar CM left the Assembly after five minutes, when members created uproar & didn't allow functioning of the House.