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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

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has approved the proposal for the constitution of the Pradesh Election Committee of the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee with immediate effect. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls, the Congress on Tuesday (September 16, 2025) set up its Pradesh Election Committee which includes the likes of the … Read more

JD(U) has been in power for two decades since 24 November 2005. While you take credit for curbing lawlessness and invoking the alleged “Jungle Raj” of your predecessors, Bihar remains economically weak. The recent caste survey showed 34.13% of 2.97 crore households earn ₹6,000 or less per month. How do you plan to address this … Read more

Left parties deserve more seats to fight in the upcoming Bihar Assembly election but they will be “realistic and reasonable” in making their claims as part of the Mahagathbandhan, Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) General Secretary M.A. Baby has said. In an interview with PTI, the CPI-M General Secretary also said there is every … Read more

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on the first day of Bihar Adhikar Yatra. Photo: X/@yadavtejashwi Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejahwi Yadav on Tuesday (September 16, 2025) launched his ‘Bihar Adhikar Yatra’ terming it a fight against unemployment, inflation and atrocities against women. During the five-day campaign, he will be … Read more

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav addresses a public rally marking the culmination of the Voter Adhikar Yatra in Patna on September 1. | Photo Credit: PTI After the success of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s 14-day Voter Adhikar Yatra in poll-bound Bihar, which crisscrossed about 110 Assembly constituencies across 24 districts, INDIA bloc ally Rashtriya Janata Dal’s … Read more

An AI-generated video, posted on the X account of the Bihar unit of the Congress, showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as having a dream in which his late mother appears, has drawn severe criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In the 36-second clip, posted on Wednesday (September 10, 2025), it is depicted such that … Read more

Referring to Section 23(4), Justice Bagchi asked whether Aadhaar was not part of the statute which governed the ECI with regard to the right to vote and inclusion in electoral rolls. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Supreme Court on Monday (September 15, 2025) said Aadhaar was part of the right to vote statute, and … Read more

Union Minister Piyush Goyal addresses a press conference at the BJP office, in Patna on September 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday (September 11, 2025) said the Nitish Kumar government would be formed once again to serve the people of Bihar. He asserted that the INDIA bloc might declare … Read more

Image for the purpose of representation only. | Photo Credit: PTI Ahead of the announcement of Assembly election dates, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bihar has begun a series of visits by its top leadership to review strategies and draw up plans. On September 13, party president J.P. Nadda will meet the State unit’s … Read more

Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge, with others in a meeting with Bihar Leaders, in New Delhi on September 9, 2025. Photo: AICC via ANI I Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge presided over a party meeting on Tuesday (September 9, 2025) to discuss the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. Leader … Read more

Bihar Congress chief Rajesh Ram (centre), Bihar Congress Legislature Party leader Shakeel Ahmad Khan (right) and All India Congress Committee Bihar in-charge Krishna Allavaru address a press conference at the party headquarters in New Delhi on September 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap The Congress on Wednesday (September 10, 2025) said that a … Read more

RJD MP Manoj Kumar Jha after a meeting with the Election Commission over Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, in New Delhi, on September 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A delegation of leaders from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) met the full bench of Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday (September … Read more

The recently released report by Lokniti-CSDS provides a data-driven analysis of digital platforms’ role in 2024 elections, showing how they complemented traditional door-to-door efforts in mobilising voters. This is Part 2 of the study. Campaign songs are increasingly vital tools for political communication, offering a catchy and accessible medium to amplify candidates’ messages and mobilise … Read more

The EC communique to the Bihar CEO said that Aadhaar should be accepted as a proof of identity and not as a proof of citizenship in terms of Section 9 of the Aadhaar Act 2016. File. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday (September 9, 2025) directed Bihar’s Chief Electoral Officer … Read more

Nainar Nagenthran. File | Photo Credit: Bijoy Ghosh BJP Tamil Nadu president Nainar Nagenthran said on Monday that he could not comprehend why Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam  (AMMK) founder T.T.V. Dhinakaran walked out of the National Democratic Alliance. He felt that Mr. Dhinakaran might not be able to accept AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami being projected as the chief ministerial candidate. Mr. Nagenthran, who was previously with the AIADMK, recalled his association with … Read more

The Supreme Court on Monday (September 8, 2025) directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to include Aadhaar as the 12th in a list of 11 ‘indicative’ documents, any of which persons seeking inclusion or exclusion in the electoral roll of Bihar could file as proof of their identity, during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision … Read more

An Election Commission of India (ECI) note submitted on Monday (September 1, 2025) in the Supreme Court showed that requests to delete/exclude names from the Bihar draft electoral roll “overwhelmed” claims for inclusion by almost six times between August 22 and August 30, 2025.  August 22, 2025, was when the court enabled voters to use … Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (September 2, 2025), for the first time, reacted to the episode in which a youth abused him and his mother during the Opposition’s Voter Adhikar Yatra (Voters Rights March) in Darbhanga on August 27. A political row had erupted in poll-bound Bihar after a video of the incident went … Read more

A women checking the names of the voters who have not submitted their documents for verification on the last day of the SIR excercise at Block Develpoment Office, Nalanda Dist of Bihar on Monday, September 01, 2025. | Photo Credit: R V Moorthy As the Supreme Court continues to hear a case against the Special … Read more

Powerful perpetrators are rarely made accountable for their actions, and in that backdrop, the conviction and life sentencing of Prajwal Revanna, former Janata Dal (Secular) Member of Parliament and grandson of former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, for a heinous crime comes as a relief. This is the first of the four cases of rape … Read more

A women checks names of voters who have not submitted their documents for verification, at the Block Develpoment Office in Bihar’s Nalanda district on September 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Even as the deadline for filing claims and objections to the draft electoral rolls of Bihar ended on Monday (September 1, 2025), the … Read more