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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi addresses a public meeting for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. File | Photo Credit: ANI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday (October 30, 2025) claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi lacks the courage to confront United States President Donald Trump over the U.S.’s assertion that it stopped the India-Pakistan conflict. Addressing … Read more

Associated with the All India Students’ Union since 2015, Dhananjay is contesting from the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, a constituent of the INDIA bloc in Bihar. | Photo Credit: 2676 Months after completing his tenure as the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president, Dhananjay says his tenure, combined with his experiences as a … Read more

A story with a rocky start found an “unexpectedly” happy ending in Bihar. It began on August 27, when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was in Darbhanga during his 14-day ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in poll-bound Bihar, at which time his party colleagues organised a motorcycle rally to neighboring Muzaffarpur, 52 km away. Mr. Gandhi’s security personnel, … Read more

Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses a gathering ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, in Darbhanga, Bihar, on October 29, 2025. Photo: X/@AmitShah via PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday (October 29, 2025) attacked the INDIA bloc, alleging that Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad wants to make his son Tejashwi Yadav … Read more

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav speaks at a joint press conference of Mahagathbandhan for the Bihar Assembly elections, in Patna on Tuesday. Mahagathbandhan release its manifesto. | Photo Credit: ANI RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday (October 29, 2025) asserted that the manifesto of the INDIA bloc, released on the previous day, is the … Read more

Father, son, and the spectre of ‘jungle raj

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul addressing a rally in Muzaffarpur, Bihar on October 29, 2025. Photo: X/@RahulGandhi Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday (October 29, 2025) charged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with running the government in Bihar “through remote control”, using the face of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Bihar Assembly election LIVE … Read more

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addressing a rally in Bihar Darbhanga on Wednesday. Photo: X@rajnathsingh Alleging that the RJD has defamed Bihar across the world, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday (October 29, 2025) said the issue of the Assembly polls in the State was clear — whether it will be taken back to the days … Read more

Moral integrity in the political class is a paradox that India has continually struggled with. While, on the one hand, the electorate demands moral rectitude in the political class, there has, on the other, been a pervading spectre of criminality prevailing in the political class. The proposed Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025, … Read more

In a poll manifesto focussed on jobs, the INDIA bloc promised to enact a law within its first 20 days in power to ensure that one member of every family in the State is given a government job and also vowed to give permanent government employee status to all contractual and outsourced employees, as well … Read more

LoP in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during a march marking culmination of ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra’, in Patna. Photo: AICC via PTI Two months after a video of Mohammed Rizvi alias Raja using abusive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi went viral, leading to his arrest, his father Mohammed Anish is grappling … Read more

Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav. File. | Photo Credit: ANI In the poll-bound Bihar, the political parties have started expelling rebel party leaders for their “anti-party activities”. After ruling party JD(U), now Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal has expelled over two dozen party leaders, … Read more

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, 74, and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad, 77, have been at the helm of Bihar politics for nearly five decades. Their journey began as comrades in the Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) Movement of the 1970s, fighting against the Emergency and championing socialist ideals. Over the years, they parted ways, joined … Read more

Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor was on Tuesday (October 28, 2025) served a notice over his name being reportedly registered as a voter in his home State of Bihar as well as adjoining West Bengal. The notice has been issued by the district election office in Bihar’s Rohtas, where Mr. Kishor has been registered … Read more

Two Rajput candidates in two regions are contesting elections for their political survival, but their profiles could not be more different. One is battling the legacy of a ‘don’ and the other is following the footsteps of a man who has never compromised on his ideology. Chetan Anand, son of former MP and don-turned-politician Anand … Read more

Congress leader Pawan Khera addresses a press conference at the AICC Office, in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: ANI Soon after the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in 12 States, Opposition parties on Monday (October 27, 2025) questioned the need to “rush” into other States when the … Read more