Bihar Assembly Election

INDIA bloc’s chief ministerial candidate of Bihar, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, on Sunday announced the swearing-in date of the new government in the state, saying he has no doubt that the opposition coalition would win. “On November 14, the results of the Bihar assembly polls will be declared, and on November 18, swearing-in will take place”, the RJD leader told reporters. Tejashwi’s remark came as a reaction to the arrest of Anant Singh, former Mokama MLA, who has been fielded by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) as a candidate in the upcoming polls. Singh was arrested on Sunday for the…

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday attacked the grand alliance of parties that is contesting in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, calling it a ‘Mahathugbandhan’ (alliance of thieves) instead of a ‘Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance), accusing the group of parties of busy fighting amongst themselves.  Comparing the five parties in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to the five ‘Pandavas’, Shah said, “All 5 parties in the NDA are like 5 ‘pandavas’ and have entered the election arena together. Before us is ‘Mahathugbandhan’ which has such chaos and infighting that instead of contesting against us, they are contesting among themselves.”  …

For the Bihar Assembly Elections that are just days away, the Patna Sahib constituency will see an electoral fight between two new candidates. While the BJP is fielding 45-year-old Ratnesh Kumar (also known as Ratnesh Khushwaha), Congress is looking to 34-year-old, Shashant Shekhar, to win the Patna Sahib constituency, which has been a BJP stronghold since 2010. With just six days left for voting, the Patna Sahib constituency is gearing up for a highly contested assembly election with the two new candidates in the electoral fray, although BJP’s Nand Kishore Yadav, the current Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly, has…