Allow Aadhaar and ration cards as key documents for Bihar special revision of electoral roll: INDIA bloc

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RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav with Bihar Congress President Rajesh Ram and Vikassheel Insaan Party chief Mukesh Sahni speaks to the media after visiting the State Election Commission, in Patna, Friday, July 4, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A delegation of INDIA bloc leaders on Friday (July 4, 2025) met Bihar Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Vinod … Read more

Bihar polls can be held based on 2024 electoral rolls: D. Raja

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CPI General Secretary D. Raja addresses a press conference in New Delhi on July 04, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Underlining the danger that several lakh voters could face exclusion from the electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being undertaken in Bihar by the Election Commission, Communist Party of India (CPI) … Read more

RJD and its allies have anti-Constitutional mindset, says BJP

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The BJP had raised a “serious issue” that those who called themselves socialists in Bihar were in reality “namazwadis”, and that ‘these people neither accept nor respect Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Constitution,” Gaurav Bhatia, BJP national spokesperson, said. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday (July 1, 2025) slammed Rashtriya Janata Dal … Read more

Pashupati Kumar Paras eager to be the part of INDIA bloc in Bihar

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Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP) national president and former Union Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras on Thursday (July 3, 2025) claimed to have had positive talks with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav. Photo credit: X/@PashupatiParas Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP) national president and former Union Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras on Thursday (July 3, 2025) … Read more

NDA will form govt. in Bihar with two-thirds majority, says Rajnath

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addressing the BJP State Working Committee meeting in Patna, Bihar on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: PTI PATNA Ahead of the Assembly election later this year in Bihar, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh targeted the opposition Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Wednesday, alleging that … Read more

BJP accuses Tejashwi Yadav of appeasement politics over Waqf Act 

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RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav. | Photo Credit: PTI  BJP MP Jagdambika Pal on Wednesday (July 2, 2025) launched a scathing attack on Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, accusing him of attempting to mislead the people of Bihar ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls. Mr. Pal’s remarks came during a press conference in Mumbai, … Read more

Opposition meeting with Election Commission over special revision of electoral rolls in Bihar deferred

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The Election Commission of India on Tuesday (July 1, 2025) said that a meeting scheduled on July 2 with Opposition parties on the contentious Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar has been postponed as the parties did not provide confirmation for the same. Photo credit: X/@ECISVEEP   The Election Commission of India on … Read more

Voters born after 1987 in Bihar don’t need to produce documents for parents if their name appear in 2003 Electoral Rolls: ECI

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An elderly voter receives the enumeration from a Booth Level Officer in Bihar’s Madhubani during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in the State. Photo: X@ECISVEEP via PTI Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls for Bihar, the Election Commission of India on Monday (June 30, 2025) uploaded the 2003 voter … Read more

Drive on to identify persons with multiple voter IDs: Chief Election Commissioner

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Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, asserted that eligible citizens should register themselves as voters only in constituencies of which they are ordinary residents and not the place where they own a house. Photo credit: PIB With the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls underway in Bihar, Chief Election Commissioner … Read more

Lalu Prasad set to be re-elected RJD national president

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RJD chief Lalu Prasad leaves after filing his nomination papers for Rashtriya Janata Dal national president, in Patna, Monday, June 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad on Monday filed the nomination papers at the party office here for re-election as the party’s national president. He was the only … Read more

RJD-Congress is anti-Bihar, anti-investment: PM Modi

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In poll-bound Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Siwan on Friday (June 20, 2025), and slammed Opposition parties Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal for taking Bihar into the mire, all the while listing work done by the NDA government in the last one decade to take Bihar forward. Prime Minister Modi also inaugurated and laid … Read more

ECI considers intensive house to house verification to update electoral rolls before Bihar Assembly election

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Amid allegations by Opposition parties over alleged manipulation of voter rolls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday (June 22, 2025) said it was contemplating intensive house to house verification for the revision of electoral rolls before the upcoming Bihar Assembly election.  | Photo Credit: MOORTHY RV Amid allegations by Opposition parties over alleged … Read more

Clean voter lists or the choice of Aadhaar linkage

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In its March 20, 2025 issue, The Economist lamented how “India is obsessed with giving its people unique IDs”. It mocked how various arms of the Indian state announce new unique IDs nearly ‘every month for everyone from doctors, teachers, athletes, judges, gig workers to even cows and buffaloes’. The Economist got it half wrong. … Read more

INDIA bloc as a beginning of democratic renewal

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The battle to secure India’s democracy and safeguard its constitutional values cannot be won through politics as usual. The ruling party thrives on centralisation and subversion — of institutions, narratives, and decision-making. The Opposition must embrace the opposite: decentralisation, open dialogue, respect for norms, and a politics that listens before it speaks. The Bharat Jodo … Read more

Kharge calls on Congress leaders during DCC meeting to unite in fight against BJP

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  Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge urged the party’s district unit chiefs on Thursday (March 27, 2025) to work with unity and a long-term strategy to secure victories in the upcoming State elections. He asserted that while the party’s ideology is strong, it cannot be implemented effectively without being in power. Ga6789 Addressing the first of … Read more

​Opening moves: On politics, the Opposition space, the INDIA bloc

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As political parties are repositioning themselves in response to changed circumstances, a realignment of politics appears to be underway, nearly a year after the general election in 2024. The non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parties, that assembled as a putative national opposition under the INDIA banner, do not have a shared goal now. In fact, the … Read more

Madras High Court dismisses Congress MP Manickam Tagore’s plea to reject case challenging his election

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  B. Manickam Tagore. File | Photo Credit: G. Moorthy The Madras High Court on Tuesday (March 4, 2025) refused to reject an election petition filed by Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) founder Vijayakant’s son V. Vijaya Prabhakaran challenging the victory of Congress Member of Parliament (MP) B. Manickam Tagore from Virudhunagar Lok Sabha constituency … Read more

A leap backward for maternity entitlements

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Even as State after State is splurging on cash transfers for women, the most vulnerable among them, pregnant women, continue to be deprived of their legal right to maternity benefits. Worse, whatever little used to be paid to them seems to be shrinking. The main responsibility for this lies with the central government. Under the … Read more