'Only common denominator is Nitish Kumar': Axis My India's Pradeep Gupta hints at close contest in BiharPollster Pradeep Gupta of Axis My India predicts a close Bihar Assembly election, identifying Nitish Kumar as the sole "common denominator"...
28 Sep, 2025, 11.53 AM IST
'I trust Nitish Kumar...': Chirag Paswan accuses Opposition of 'amplifying' his remarks to project rift in NDALok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) President and Union Minister Chirag Paswan accused the Opposition parties in Bihar of attempting to project...
05 Aug, 2025, 03.39 PM IST
SP's 'PDA' has defeated Modi-Yogi, says Akhilesh YadavSamajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav announced that the 'PDA' coalition had overcome the BJP's 'Modi-Yogi' dominance. Speaking at Saifa...
19 Aug, 2024, 10.27 PM IST
Mulayam Singh Yadav: A socialist leader whose MY politics worked before Modi eraA follower of socialist icon Ram Manohar Lohia, Mulayam Singh Yadav became an MLA for the first time in 1967. He opposed the national emerg...
10 Oct, 2022, 07.26 PM IST
UP bypoll results: What led to Samajwadi Party's defeat in its bastions?Azamgarh, which was vacated by SP president Akhilesh Yadav after the assembly polls in February-March, went to the BJP this time. Rampur, a...
27 Jun, 2022, 05.20 PM IST
M-Y' stands for 'mahila' and youth in new SP: Akhilesh YadavThe Samajwadi Party, apparently, wants to rise above caste lines and address women and youth as a community. Which is why it is reframing i...
17 Sep, 2021, 06.24 PM IST
Last phase of Bihar polls crucial for NDA, RJD allianceThe region has a large presence of most backward caste (MBC) voters, Muslims and Yadavs. The Kosi belt, which faces floods every year, also...
07 Nov, 2020, 07.56 AM IST
Bihar elections: Opposition alliance to soon announce Tejashwi Yadav as its CM candidateThe party is contemplating giving tickets to more upper-caste candidates after it earlier made Singh, an upper-caste leader, its state chie...
17 Sep, 2020, 08.11 PM IST
Alliance in Bihar key for Congress and JD(U) to stay strongThose who are close to Sonia are considered to be the supporters of RJD chief and former CM Lalu Prasad within Bihar’s grand alliance.
24 Jul, 2017, 01.33 AM IST
UP Elections 2017: Results backlash against SP, BSP’s identity politicsBoth the champions of identity politics — BSP and SP —thought 2014 was an aberration and these communities will return to their original te...
16 Mar, 2017, 10.44 AM IST
Fielding candidates for all 403 assembly seats in UP: CongressBabbar has not been in favour of any alliance with SP, though senior Congress leader and incharge of UP Ghulam Nabi Azad is not averse to s...
20 Jan, 2017, 02.50 PM IST
Bihar polls: NDA eyeing division in Muslim-Yadav vote bankUnion Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, who heads the NDA constituent LJP, is confident that time has now come for a "change" in Bihar politics.
23 Aug, 2015, 12.57 PM IST
Election Results 2014: Modi powered NDA strikes gold in Bihar, RJD, JD(U) bashedThe script in fact went horribly wrong for the chief minister who broke from the BJP calculating this would earn him the goodwill of the Mu...
17 May, 2014, 03.35 AM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Mulayam's Azamgarh gambit to secure Muslim-Yadav baseIt's a desperate attempt to boost his party's chances in Azamgarh, a constituency that raises contrasting images of Kaifi Azmi, Abu Salem a...
26 Mar, 2014, 12.00 PM IST
Lalu Prasad Yadav to visit camps of Muzaffarnagar riot victimsAfter Rahul Gandhi, it was the turn of RJD chief Lalu Prasad to visit the camps of riot victims in Muzaffarnagar.
29 Dec, 2013, 11.48 AM IST
Mulayam’s political antics could be directed at appeasing Muslim-Yadav vote baseThe 2012 UP Assembly elections may have reinforced SP’s belief that a majority of Muslims and Yadavs repose faith in his party.
31 Mar, 2013, 08.54 AM IST
- Nitish Kumar lays siege to Lalu's bastion
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is making bold moves to outwit Lalu Prasad Yadav on the minority turf.
28 Aug, 2007, 11.40 PM IST