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End of Nitish Raj, for now: Bihar's longest-serving Chief Minister resignsBihar's longest-serving Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, has stepped down after a decades-long political career. He formally submitted his res...- Bihar’s longest-serving CM Nitish Kumar chairs last cabinet meet, recommends dissolutionBihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has recommended the dissolution of his cabinet. He will submit his resignation to the Governor later toda...
- 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...
- 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...
- Samajwadi Party tries to woo Thakur community ahead of UP pollsIn a list of 15 nominations, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has allotted four seats to the Thakur community to signal the SP’s commitment tow...
- 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...
- 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...
- Bihar Polls: BJP brings Non-Yadav, Non-Kurmi ministers from UP for campaigningOn the previous day, Chouhan flew in chopper with Dharmendra Pradhan, BJP’s election co-incharge for Bihar, for campaigning in the third ph...
- Bihar polls: Nalanda litmus test for JD(U)-RJD allianceWhether they joins hands in the name of larger OBC unity or not will be at play in Nalanda, which will reflect the voting pattern for the M...
- Bihar polls: As polling starts, it's 50-50 by all reckoningThe alliance of RJD, JD(U) and Congress looks the favourite largely because Muslims, Yadavs and Kurmis together add up to a hefty 35% of th...
- Bihar polls: Grand Alliance fixes names for 242 seatsAs per the list, RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s sons Tejashwi Prasad and Tej Pratap will contest the Raghopur and Mahua seats respectively.
- Bihar elections still remain about slicing and dicing caste, EBCs are the wild cardLike it or not, caste continues to underpin electoral behaviour. This is so particularly in Bihar and UP, with the exception of ‘wave’ elec...
- Resentment among ticket seekers in Bihar polls will benefit NDA: Ram Vilas PaswanPaswan, who heads the LJP, said Muslim, Yadav and Kurmi caste voters are annoyed and RJD chief Lalu Prasad cannot control the Yadavs.
- Election Results 2014: Narendra Modi-Amit Shah magic works in all corners of Uttar PradeshThe Narendra Modi-Amit Shah game plan checkmated the two regional parties which had carved out the state between themselves for decades.
- Beni Prasad’s allegations against Mulayam Singh a result of strained relationshipBeni Prasad’s allegations against Mulayam stems from their’s strained relationship which took an ugly turn when Verma’s son Rakesh was deni...
- UP Assembly Election 2012: Avadh crucial for Congress prospectsFor Congress, it is imperative that the party retains the gains it made in the Avadh region in the 2009 Lok Sabha election.
- 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...
- Ahead of UP polls, cabinet clears 4.5% quota for minoritiesThe competition for Muslim votes in UP intensified, with the Congress getting the Union Cabinet to carve out a 4.5% sub-quota for minoritie...
- Beni's induction part of Congress' UP gameplanThough only one new face was inducted from Uttar Pradesh in the ministerial reshuffle undertaken by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the chan...
- Backward leanings pay rich dividends to BJP in UPThe decision to project Mr Kalyan Singh as its chief ministerial candidate and electoral tie-ups with the Janata Dal (United) and the Kurmi...
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