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Bihar, Politics

PM’s Bihar speech complicates problem for Nitish

PM Narendra Modi addressed rallies in Sasaram, Gaya and Bhagalpur as he began his election campaign in Bihar (File photo: courtesy: PMO twitter)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s maiden election speech near Sasaram on Friday (Oct 23) compounded the problem for the state chief minister Nitish Kumar as well as the workers and supporters of his Janata Dal United. By not speaking a word against the…

Thenewsweb
October 24, 2020

Bihar, Politics

One photo is enough to explode the myth about the so-called Jungle Raj

The writer and other journalists are sitting along with African students in the pavilion of Moin-ul-Haque during the 1996 World Cup match. (File Photo, credit: Sanjay Solanki)

A photo taken on February 27, 1996 at the height of the so-called Jungle Raj debunks all the lies deliberately spread for the political reasons in the poll-bound Bihar. It was taken by a photo-journalist, Sanjay Solanki, during the World…

News Web
October 21, 2020

Bihar, Politics

Imamganj ground report: Has Jitan Ram Manjhi edge over Uday Narayan Chaudhary?

HAM's president Jitan Ram Manjhi (left) and his rival former speaker and RJD candidate Uday Narayan Chaudhary (right), locked in tough fight in Gaya's Imamganj constituency. (File Photo)

A ground survey of high-profile Gaya’s Imamganj constituency done 10 days before Oct 28 reveals that NDA candidate and Hindustani Awam Morcha chief Jitan Ram Manjhi appears to have an edge over Grand Alliance’s Uday Narayan Chaudhary, the Bihar assembly speaker…

Shams Khan
October 20, 2020

Bihar, India

Senior BJP leaders attack Chirag for ‘creating confusion’

BJP has stepped up its attack on LJP as party in charge of Bihar Bhupendra Yadav and Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday alleged that the LJP leader Chirag Paswan is misleading the people and creating confusion…

Thenewsweb
October 17, 2020

India, Politics

Bihar Assembly election: Nitish finally comes out, addresses a physical rally in Banka

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar addressed first physical rally in Banka (File photo, lmage courtesy: Parwaz Khan/ Hindustantimes)

Bihar chief minister and the national president of Janata Dal United Nitish Kumar on Wednesday launched his first physical election campaign from Amarpur Assembly constituency in Banka district. He then flew to Sultanganj in Bhagalpur, Tarapur in Munger district and Mokamah in…

Thenewsweb
October 15, 2020

Bihar, India

BJP renews attack on LJP three days after Ram Vilas Paswan’s death

Through repeated statements BJP leaders are trying to assert that LJP is not an NDA constituent fearing the confusion could mar their prospect.

The deputy chief minister of Bihar and the most prominent face of the state BJP, Sushil Kumar Modi, on Monday once again made it amply clear that his party had no alliance with the LJP (Lok Janshakti Party). Talking to the…

Thenewsweb
October 12, 2020

Bihar, Politics

How deeply the LJP has divided the BJP?

LJP's activism, one after another, are triggering uneasiness in Janata Dal United as well as BJP. (File Photo of BJP president J P Nadda and LJP president Chirag Paswan, courtesy twitter)

The Lok Janshakti Party’s decision to put up candidates against all the Janata Dal United nominees has, by design or default, thrown BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) into a disarray. The joining of the LJP by three leaders strongly associated with…