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Nitish Kumar resigns as Bihar MLC: Who will be the state's new Chief Minister?Nitish Kumar's resignation from the Bihar Legislative Council following his Rajya Sabha election has triggered intense speculation about hi...- Bihar power reset: Caste math, BJP assertion to shape post-Nitish eraPolitical signals from Bihar suggest that Samrat Choudhary could play a pivotal role in the transition. As a prominent OBC face of the BJP,...
- Why the NDA is keeping quiet on Bihar’s liquor banAs Bihar gears up for elections, prohibition, once a hallmark of Nitish Kumar's governance, has become a silent burden for the ruling NDA. ...
- Cut by a thousand degrees: Why educational credentials in Bihar continue to fail to build much-required real human capitalPre-election rallies, as always, revolved around employment guarantees, welfare schemes and caste arithmetic. Yet, the real question went u...
- BJP's hopes for 2024 soar as outgoing year ends on happy noteLok Sabha: Entering the new year with optimistic strides, the BJP sees 2023 as a promising prelude to the national elections, eyeing a thir...
- View: Bhakt goggles? Why jobs became secondary in this poll campaignThere are reasons why Modi shifted his election discourse from jobs to wider touchpoints like nationalism.
- Vishwas versus Vikas in Lalu citadel; Saran slugfest too close to callRJD-Congress was behind the NDA by 10-12% votes five years back, so any vote transfer between the other block could prove fatal.
- Mulayam Singh Yadav backs Shivpal, CM Akhilesh Yadav supports Ram GopalRam Gopal or 'Professor Sahib', is the most educated in the Yadav clan. He has been in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha for the past 25 years.
- Upper caste, Congress votes key to Amit Shah’s UP poll mathUrban voters "wanting change, a resurgent Congress dividing the anti-BJP vote, and reliance on party whole-timers - that’s the political st...
- Nitish wapsi: Bihar chief minister who trounced the PMNitish Kumar began preparing for Bihar assembly election after his party's rout in Lok Sabha polls last year.
- A new beginning: Bihar polls may show the way out of caste equationNitish brought the state back from the brink, gave it one of the best road infrastructures in the country, and has ensured electricity for ...
- BJP banks on PM Narendra Modi's magic to undo Bihar caste calculusBJP is banking on its “development and jobs” pitch, undergirded by an effort to polarize the “beef” debate.
- Bihar polls: Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad are doing well at both chemistry and arithmeticLalu Prasad has managed to consolidate his Yadav vote and pave the way for largescale transfer to the Alliance.
- Bihar elections: Parties cast development net to woo votersWhether it be the BJP-led NDA or the JD(U)-RJD-Congress grand alliance, development is a core poll issue in the upcoming Bihar polls.
- Bihar polls may finally boil down to caste calculusNDA is making efforts to woo the backward and Dalit castes, who constitute almost 33% of the population, by using Kushwaha, Paswan and Manj...
- Socio-economic caste census: Numbers not being revealed to hide upper caste dominance in governance?Upper castes have been running govts for so long that they don’t want the data to finally proclaim that the Indian democracy is not represe...
- Caste remains an integral part of Bihar's political landscapeNegotiating the caste calculus will be integral to Nitish Kumar’s chances of completing this term and returning as CM for another.
- It's getting tougher for NaMo: LK Advani praises Shivraj Singh ChouhanThe wholesome praise comes in the midst of an attempt to flaunt and contrast Modi’s Gujarat model with the lack of governance and direction...
- UP Polls: Congress trying to get caste calculus right; eyeing Kurmi and Muslim votesIn UP, where caste equations have historically determined electoral outcomes, Congress is working to consolidate the votes of Kurmis and Mu...
- Nitish Kumar: The man with a magic wandNitish Kumar braved odds to rescue Bihar from its abominable state of affairs.
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