A year ahead of Lok Sabha polls, BJP national president J P Nadda on Thursday appointed Samrat Chaudhary, the leader of opposition in Bihar Legislative Council, as the party’s new state unit president. “We are committed to form the first BJP government in state and win all the 40 Lok Sabha seats from Bihar in 2024,” Chaudhary said after his …
Patna: Concerned about the poor performance of the party in the recently-concluded state assembly elections, the Janata Dal supremo and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is trying to consolidate its vote base of Kurmi and Koeri and further strengthen its electoral base from other castes. Ever since he severed ties with Lalu Prasad in 1993 and floated his own Samata …
Patna: The Congress is all set to launch actor turned politician Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha in politics by giving him a ticket from Patna’s Bankipore seat which is considered a BJP’s stronghold. Bankipore Assembly seat comes under the Patna Sahib constituency that elected Shatrughan Sinha twice in 2009 and 2014 when he was in the BJP. Sources said that …
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government for its alleged mismanagement of the Covid-19 outbreak in the state. Reacting to news reports of unclaimed bodies of Covid-19 victims lying around in Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in the state capital during a central team's visit, Rahul Gandhi claimed that the pandemic situation is out of …