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JDU rethinks Bihar grassroots strategy after Nitish Kumar's exitJDU confronts challenges retaining its core support after Nitish Kumar's resignation. The party's reliance on welfare scheme beneficiaries ...- BJP takes the driver’s seat, but must stay the course set by NitishWith Nitish Kumar stepping down as Chief Minister, Bihar is entering a new political phase that strengthens the role of the Bharatiya Janat...
- Nitish Kumar's schemes to empower Mahadalits 'well-intentioned', but need proper implementation: StudyNitish Kumar introduced the Mahadalit umbrella in 2007 after the Bihar State Mahadalit Commission recommended inclusion of 18 scheduled cas...
- Bihar polls: Jitan Ram Manjhi locked in tight contest with Uday Narain Chaudhary for ImamganjManjhi, the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) chief, is also contesting from Makhdumpur, another reserved seat, from where he had won last t...
- Nitish Kumar's other Manjhi Mahadalit scheme too comes a cropper in BiharThe report on DMKVY was prepared by consultancy firm Datamation Consultants after it was engaged by Bihar Mahadalit Vikas Mission (BMVM) to...
- Ram Vilas Paswan not in favour of President's rule in BiharFormer Bihar Chief Minister cannot live without power and it is better that he gets six months again as Chief Minister as people will be di...
- NDA hits out at Nitish Kumar, Congress says Jitan Ram Manjhi quit as BJP panickedYesterday, BJP announced support to Manjhi but he still did not have numbers to win the trust vote after JD(U), RJD and Congress rallied be...
- BJP hints at supporting Jitan Ram Manjhi during trust voteOpposition BJP in Bihar today hinted at voting in favour of embattled Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi during the February 20 trust vote.
- Jitan Ram Manjhi loyalist ministers suspended as effort to buy them failed: BJPA day will come when Nitish Kumar will be left alone in JD-U. There is no democracy in JD-U and even legislators are thrown out of the part...
- BJP using Jitan Ram Manjhi as sacrificial lamb, say Nitish Kumar's supporters"BJP is garlanding Manjhi just as butchers do to a goat before sacrificing it," JD(U) general secretary Shyam Rajak told reporters.
- Jitan Ram Manjhi includes Paswan caste in Mahadalit categoryThe Paswan caste had been left out from the Mahadalit category during Nitish Kumar's time when he had constituted a Mahadalit commission.
- Ramvilas Paswan dubs Nitish Kumar's election unconstitutionalThe Union Food and Civil Supplies minister came down heavily on Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad and dubbed them as "anti-dalit".
- Bihar: Jitan Ram Manjhi orders probe into alleged conversionManjhi ordered a probe into the alleged conversion of over 60 persons, belonging to scheduled caste, to Christianity on the occasion of Chr...
- Be on guard against politics of communal frenzy: JD(U)leader Nitish KumarKumar said that Bihar will excel at employment & industries if it gets 'special status', but Centre has gone back on its poll promise of gr...
- Nitish Kumar, Jitan Ram Manjhi cannot go together, says LJP chief Ram Vilas PaswanLJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan accused Nitish Kumar of making mockery of a mahadalit CM (Manjhi) by choosing him for the job on "contract basis...
- Urban poor also to get 3 decimal land: Jitan Ram ManjhiManjhi, who himself hails from mahadalit section, had handed over papers of 3 decimal land to five mahadalit families later.
- Nitish Kumar chose Jitan Ram Manjhi to safeguard his 'kharao': Sushil Kumar Modi"Jitan Ram Manjhi is a 'kathputli' Chief Minister of Nitish Kumar," former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi told PTI in a statement.
- JD(U), BJP vying for support of backwards to replicate Nitish’s gameplan in 2010 pollsFor the past few years, Nitish Kumar of the JD(U) has been making concerted efforts to carve out a constituency from among these sections.
- Centre has acknowledged 'Mahadalit': NitishBihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today claimed that the Centre had acknowledged the use of term Mahadalits for the extremely backward, who...
- LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan espouses the cause of dalits, hits the streetsShowing his fighting spirit which he may be needing as never before, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan hit the streets of Patna on Monday for espo...
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