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CEC Gyanesh Kumar. File | Photo Credit: PTI “Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Vivek Joshi and S.S. Sandhu will visit Patna for two days beginning from Saturday (October 4, 2025) to review poll preparedness in Bihar,” officials said. The term of the 243-member Bihar Assembly ends on November 22 and polls … Read more

Union Minister of Food Processing Industries Chirag Paswan. File | Photo Credit: PTI Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas (LJP-RV) president Chirag Paswan on Tuesday (September 30, 2025) criticised Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav for the latter’s remark that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) considers the Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) a “vote … Read more

The ECI on September 30, 2025, announced that it has come out with the “final electoral roll” in Bihar. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Ahead of the Assembly election in Bihar, the Election Commission on Tuesday released the final electoral rolls in the State with nearly 7.42 crore names on the completion of the … Read more

JDU MLA Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, representing Parbatta Assembly constituency, joined the Opposition RJD at an event in Bihar. (X/@DrSanjeev0121) In the run-up to the Assembly election in Bihar, ruling Janata Dal (United) MLA Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, representing Parbatta Assembly constituency in Khagaria district, joined the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) at an event in Parbatta on Friday. RJD leader and … Read more

CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu “The Election Commission (EC) should specify the grounds for deleting 3.66 lakh additional voters,” CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said, saying lack of clarity in the final electoral roll published on Tuesday (September 30, 2025) for Bihar ahead of the Assembly polls in the … Read more

Jan Suraaj Chief Prashant Kishor. File | Photo Credit: ANI Union Minister Chirag Paswan on Tuesday (September 30, 2025) observed that Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor’s style of politics was similar to that of Aam Aadmi Party founder Arvind Kejriwal. Speaking to reporters, the Lok Janshakti (Ram Vilas) president recalled that Mr. Kejriwal had, … Read more

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Actor and Singer Pawan Singh meets Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in New Delhi on September 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI/@AmitShahOffice Following the NDA government’s announcement of a slew of welfare programmes for Bihar ahead of the State Assembly polls, the BJP has got down to people management, pulling Bhojpuri singer Pawan Singh back … Read more

Jan Suraaj Party Chief Prashant Kishor addresses a press conference, in Patna on September 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI A day after Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder and former poll strategist Prashant Kishor levelled charges against BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Samrat Choudhary for allegedly being involved in producing a fake … Read more

Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav addresses a public gathering. | Photo Credit: ANI Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in Bihar, Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday once again targeted Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his age and health, while reminding voters of welfare schemes promised by … Read more

This will be the ECI’s first visit to Bihar since the contentious special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was announced, with the final list scheduled to be published on September 30.  | Photo Credit: PTI The Election Commission of India (ECI) is expected to visit Bihar on October 4-5 to review preparedness for the … Read more

Congress general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: ANI Targeting Home Minister Amit Shah for his recent statement that the NDA will win more than 160 seats in the upcoming Bihar Assembly election, the Congress on Monday (September 29, 2025) said the ruling alliance was banking on vote chori (vote theft) and vote … Read more

Leaders of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on Wednesday (September 24, 2025) released a 10-point resolution for the Extremely Backward Class (EBC), including a pledge to bring in a law for protection against atrocities on the lines of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act, if the bloc was voted … Read more

Union Home Minister Amit Shah being welcomed by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary upon his arrival in the state on September 26, 2025. Photo: X/@samrat4bjp via PTI Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the ambitious scheme Mukhyamantri Mahila Rozgar Yojana for women in poll-bound Bihar, Union Home Minister Amit Shah visited the … Read more

Congress general secretary and MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra addresses a gathering during ‘Mahila Samvad’ event at Sadaqat Ashram, in Patna, Bihar, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI In her first rally in poll-bound Bihar, Congress general secretary and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday (September 26, 2025) urged the women of Bihar … Read more

Union Home Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah on Saturday (September 27, 2025) targeted INDIA bloc in Bihar asserting that this election is about driving out “infiltrators” from the entire State. Bihar Assembly elections: Full coverage Mr. Shah urged people to ensure victory in more than 160 seats in Bihar out … Read more

Ahead of the Bihar Assembly election, a fresh feud could be taking shape in the family of Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad, following a cryptic post by his daughter Rohini Acharya, who had donated her kidney to Mr. Prasad in 2022. According to sources in the RJD, Ms. Acharya is unhappy over the expanding … Read more

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge (C) with party leader and LoP in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi (L) and Congress leader K.C. Venugopal during the party’s Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, in Patna, on September 24, 2025. Photo: Special Arrangement The BJP has “mentally retired” Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and now regards him a “liability”, Congress … Read more

AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi. File | Photo Credit: PTI With only days left for the Assembly elections in Bihar, the All India Majlis-e-Ettehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said he had written to Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Tejashwi Yadav about joining the mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) bloc for the polls to prevent … Read more

File picture of BJP MP Sambit Patra. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday (September 24, 2025) dismissed as a “sham” the Congress party’s announcement of a 10-point programme targeting the Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs) in Bihar ahead of the Assembly polls, accusing the party of indulging in appeasement politics. … Read more