Among OBCs, party’s favourite seems to be Koeri community, Kurmi, Lodh-Rajput, Nishad & Jats. Apart from these, BJP wooing Rajbhars, Baghel...

In 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...

Nitish’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...

61 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...

On the previous day, Chouhan flew in chopper with Dharmendra Pradhan, BJP’s election co-incharge for Bihar, for campaigning in the third ph...

Whether 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...

The 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...

As per the list, RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s sons Tejashwi Prasad and Tej Pratap will contest the Raghopur and Mahua seats respectively.

Like it or not, caste continues to underpin electoral behaviour. This is so particularly in Bihar and UP, with the exception of ‘wave’ elec...

Paswan, who heads the LJP, said Muslim, Yadav and Kurmi caste voters are annoyed and RJD chief Lalu Prasad cannot control the Yadavs.

The 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 stems from their’s strained relationship which took an ugly turn when Verma’s son Rakesh was deni...

For Congress, it is imperative that the party retains the gains it made in the Avadh region in the 2009 Lok Sabha election.

In UP, where caste equations have historically determined electoral outcomes, Congress is working to consolidate the votes of Kurmis and Mu...

The competition for Muslim votes in UP intensified, with the Congress getting the Union Cabinet to carve out a 4.5% sub-quota for minoritie...

Though only one new face was inducted from Uttar Pradesh in the ministerial reshuffle undertaken by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the chan...

The decision to project Mr Kalyan Singh as its chief ministerial candidate and electoral tie-ups with the Janata Dal (United) and the Kurmi...