Kurmi, Kushwaha surge spurs Nitish Kumar’s ascent yet again in BiharKurmis and Kushwahas have become the decisive force behind Nitish Kumar's 10th swearing-in, with their assembly representation reaching rec...
21 Nov, 2025, 04.00 PM IST
JDU national executive to discuss current political situationJDU is holding its national executive meeting in New Delhi following the Lok Sabha election results. The meeting comes amid a demand from a...
28 Jun, 2024, 11.35 PM IST
18th Lok Sabha: Many parties choose younger members as floor leadersTDP, the second-largest party in the ruling alliance with 16 MPs in the Lok Sabha, has appointed 40-year-old Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu, a...
26 Jun, 2024, 04.30 PM IST
Bihar: Samrat Choudhary, OBC leader whose stock rose rapidly upon joining BJPChoudhary was named the state BJP president in March last year, when he succeeded Lok Sabha MP Sanjay Jaiswal, drawing Rabri Devi's snide r...
28 Jan, 2024, 04.17 PM IST
No challenge to Modi in 2024, says Upendra Kushwaha day after meeting ShahKushwaha belongs to the Koeri caste, the most populous OBC group after the Yadavs. Moreover, the party recently appointed another Koeri, Sa...
21 Apr, 2023, 04.30 PM IST
Bihar elections 2020: Six-party front likely to hurt NDA and Grand AllianceThe general understanding in the GDSF is that the BJP’s “subterranean” game plan is to thwart the bid of Nitish to become the state’s CM ag...
11 Oct, 2020, 10.41 AM IST
RJD focuses on quota in Bihar; bets on 2015 planTejashwi Prasad Yadav, RJD leader and former deputy chief minister of Bihar, is repeatedly stating in campaigns that Prime Minister Narendr...
13 May, 2019, 07.26 AM IST
Most backward communities Ministers have no Sangh trainingA look at the political background of the ministers in Adityanath government shows that almost half the OBC members aren’t groomed either b...
20 Mar, 2017, 06.49 AM IST
BJP bets big on non-Yadav OBCs in UP Assembly pollsAmong OBCs, party’s favourite seems to be Koeri community, Kurmi, Lodh-Rajput, Nishad & Jats. Apart from these, BJP wooing Rajbhars, Baghel...
25 Jan, 2017, 07.22 AM IST
BJP silent on HC caste order, turns wiser after BiharRSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s quota remarks during the Bihar assembly polls in 2015 made the BJP wiser about getting into caste debates.
25 Jan, 2017, 12.12 AM IST
UP polls: Mulayam Singh and Mayawati chase extremely backward castes voters to deny BJP 2014-like sucessWhile trying to keep their core votes together, BJP, BSP and SP, which won the 2012 polls with 29.13% votes, will fight for the non-Yadav, ...
24 May, 2016, 02.34 AM IST
BJP hopes to revive fortunes in Uttar Pradesh through OBC mobilisationThe party has maintained a silence on whether it will announce a chief ministerial candidate like it did recently in Assam.
17 Apr, 2016, 01.01 PM IST
Amit Shah's choice of UP BJP chief to dampen Nitish Kumar's pitchNitish’s designs of making a robust foray into UP may have got its biggest social engineering jolt when Amit Shah appointed KP Maurya as th...
11 Apr, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
2,320 years on, Bihar discovers Ashoka shares birthday with AmbedkarHe added that Buddhists celebrate April 14 as `enlightenment' day . “I know that there is no specific evidence to prove Ashoka's date of bi...
18 Dec, 2015, 01.02 PM IST
Bihar election results 2015: 1 in every 4 new members in Assembly is a Yadav61 out of the total 243 legislators are Yadav, 42 of them are from RJD. Other parties, too, have Yadav members - 11 from JD(U), two from Co...
10 Nov, 2015, 12.12 PM IST
- UP Polls: BJP divided over induction of Babu Singh Kushwaha into the party
A section of leaders, including LK Advani, said short-term calculations of the BJP leadership was solely responsible for the mess.
05 Jan, 2012, 03.23 AM IST
- Nitish weaving rainbow to grab pot of gold
In a move that is certain to spell trouble for Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav and Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, JD(U) leader and Bihar chief minister Nitish K...
10 Jan, 2008, 04.02 AM IST