Sushil Kumar Modi: The man behind BJP’s rise in Bihar, was shaped by JP movement
Senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi died Monday night at AIIMS, New Delhi. He was 72.
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Nitish Kumar’s core voter base for decades, why Kushwaha support for NDA is wavering
Addressing a meeting in Bihar’s Ujiarpur Lok Sabha constituency last week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah made an impassioned plea for Nityanand Rai, the junior minister in his department. “I have not done as much work in my constituency Gandhinagar (in Gujarat) as Nityanand Rai has done for Ujiarpur … Nityanand is my friend, ensure his victory with a huge margin,” Shah said.
JD(U) sheen off, why for Bihar’s NDA voters it is Modi in 2024, not Nitish
For the large part of Nitish Kumar’s 19-year rule in Bihar, his leadership has been identified with an efficient administration that restored law and order in the state, built road infrastructure, empowered girls, women and disadvantaged sections of the society with schemes, carefully designed. Credited with identifying women as a separate constituency in the country – long before it became the flavour of many a party – Nitish also enforced prohibition in the state in 2016.
No buzz in Bihar around caste census, parties relegate it to back burner
Not too long ago, both the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar were trying to own the caste-based survey that last year revealed that the Economically Backward Classes (EBCs) were the largest social bloc in the state at 36.1% of the population.
‘Blessing for us’: Tejashwi Yadav hits back at Nitish Kumar's ‘too many children’ remark at Lalu
In response to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's comment where he taunted Lalu Prasad, whether one person should have so many children, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav replied by saying that this is “not the first time" Kumar has made such remarks and said whatever the CM says “for his family is going to be a blessing for them".
4 Lok Sabha constituencies voted in Phase-I | Bihar buzz: Modi leading light, Tejashwi sonrise, Nitish sunset
In Bihar, which voted Friday in four Lok Sabha constituencies and where elections for the state’s 40 seats will be held in all seven phases, there appears to be no overwhelming wave in favour of one party, no single emotive issue that has captured the imagination of voters.
Samrat Choudhary interview: ‘BJP in govt helped pass caste survey move … RJD was nowhere then’
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary is one of the BJP’s tallest OBC leaders in the state. In an interview with The Indian Express, he talks about the Opposition’s criticism of Narendra Modi for his comments on Opposition leaders who “cook mutton during saawan (monsoon)” or “eat fish during Navratri” — the PM’s dig at RJD leader Lalu Prasad, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, and Lalu’s son Tejashwi Yadav — the Bihar caste survey, and his criticism of Nitish Kumar in the past.