Bihar Assembly Numbers

Bihar Political Crisis: Nitish Kumar today resigned as Bihar Chief Minister, ending his party Janata Dal(United)'s two-year association with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).

If the RJD, after its big meeting today, supports Nitish Kumar, a new formation with JDU, RJD, Congress, HAM, and CPIML will comfortably cross the majority mark with a total of 159 MLAs.

A number of senior JDU leaders said the absence of welcome ads from the government "may be a human error". The Bihar alliance has seen some disagreements between the partners over the past few months, a recent one being over the Agnipath scheme.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) on Thursday asserted that it was looking forward to contesting a substantial number of seats in the West Bengal assembly elections, in which its ally BJP has high stakes.

Nitish Kumar, set to be Chief Minister of Bihar for the seventh time but with a greatly diminished status in the ruling alliance after finishing at number 3, rejected the "arrogant" label in an interaction with the media after the state election results.

Only 84,900 votes had helped Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar gain a fourth straight term, shows data from the Election Commission a day after counting of votes in the state's recently concluded assembly election.

The unexpected low numbers of the opposition-led alliance of Rashtriya Janata Dal, Congress and the Left parties have been brightened by the good showing by the CPI(ML).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will be campaigning in Bihar today, this morning appealed to the voters to step out in large numbers while adhering to the government-mandated social distancing norms to check spread of coronavirus.

Voting for the first phase of the three-phase Bihar assembly polls - one of the world's largest electoral exercises to be held in the COVID-19 pandemic - began in 71 of the 243 assembly constituencies of the state this morning. The second phase voting will be held on November 3 and will cover 94 seats and the third phase of polling on 78 seats will...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked people in Bihar to go out in large numbers and vote in the first phase of the election to the state assembly, asking voters to maintain coronavirus safety guidelines and wear a mask as they step out to vote. The Bihar election, the first assembly election since the coronavirus outbreak, is being held in the ...

More than 50 per cent people voted in the first of the three-phase election in Bihar -- the first amid the coronavirus pandemic -- which will decide if Nitish Kumar will win a fourth term as Chief Minister. Till 5 pm, 52.24 per cent people voted, choosing candidates for 71 of the state's 243 seats. Nitish Kumar's challenger is RJD's Tejashwi Yadav,...

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday took a dig at the BJP for "mocking" RJD over its 10 lakh jobs promise and then itself talking about creating 19 lakh jobs in its Bihar election manifesto, saying he did not know that 19 was a smaller number than 10.

The Centre on Thursday permitted with certain conditions political gatherings in poll-bound Bihar and also in those constituencies where bypolls are to be held with the maximum number of people in a close space or a hall capped at 200 while in an open space, it will depend on the area.

Amid concerns over large gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic, the Election Commission today reduced the maximum number of "star" campaigners allowed for each party ahead of Assembly elections due in Bihar later this month

Bihar BJP's seniormost leader Sushil Modi today tacitly condemned Chirag Paswan's move to spurn the leadership of Nitish Kumar and contest solo in the coming state elections. Only Nitish Kumar, he declared, will be the Chief Minister, "whatever may be the outcome in terms of numbers".

Bihar Political Crisis: Nitish Kumar today resigned as Bihar Chief Minister, ending his party Janata Dal(United)'s two-year association with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).

If the RJD, after its big meeting today, supports Nitish Kumar, a new formation with JDU, RJD, Congress, HAM, and CPIML will comfortably cross the majority mark with a total of 159 MLAs.

A number of senior JDU leaders said the absence of welcome ads from the government "may be a human error". The Bihar alliance has seen some disagreements between the partners over the past few months, a recent one being over the Agnipath scheme.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) on Thursday asserted that it was looking forward to contesting a substantial number of seats in the West Bengal assembly elections, in which its ally BJP has high stakes.

Nitish Kumar, set to be Chief Minister of Bihar for the seventh time but with a greatly diminished status in the ruling alliance after finishing at number 3, rejected the "arrogant" label in an interaction with the media after the state election results.

Only 84,900 votes had helped Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar gain a fourth straight term, shows data from the Election Commission a day after counting of votes in the state's recently concluded assembly election.

The unexpected low numbers of the opposition-led alliance of Rashtriya Janata Dal, Congress and the Left parties have been brightened by the good showing by the CPI(ML).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will be campaigning in Bihar today, this morning appealed to the voters to step out in large numbers while adhering to the government-mandated social distancing norms to check spread of coronavirus.

Voting for the first phase of the three-phase Bihar assembly polls - one of the world's largest electoral exercises to be held in the COVID-19 pandemic - began in 71 of the 243 assembly constituencies of the state this morning. The second phase voting will be held on November 3 and will cover 94 seats and the third phase of polling on 78 seats will...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked people in Bihar to go out in large numbers and vote in the first phase of the election to the state assembly, asking voters to maintain coronavirus safety guidelines and wear a mask as they step out to vote. The Bihar election, the first assembly election since the coronavirus outbreak, is being held in the ...

More than 50 per cent people voted in the first of the three-phase election in Bihar -- the first amid the coronavirus pandemic -- which will decide if Nitish Kumar will win a fourth term as Chief Minister. Till 5 pm, 52.24 per cent people voted, choosing candidates for 71 of the state's 243 seats. Nitish Kumar's challenger is RJD's Tejashwi Yadav,...

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday took a dig at the BJP for "mocking" RJD over its 10 lakh jobs promise and then itself talking about creating 19 lakh jobs in its Bihar election manifesto, saying he did not know that 19 was a smaller number than 10.

The Centre on Thursday permitted with certain conditions political gatherings in poll-bound Bihar and also in those constituencies where bypolls are to be held with the maximum number of people in a close space or a hall capped at 200 while in an open space, it will depend on the area.

Amid concerns over large gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic, the Election Commission today reduced the maximum number of "star" campaigners allowed for each party ahead of Assembly elections due in Bihar later this month

Bihar BJP's seniormost leader Sushil Modi today tacitly condemned Chirag Paswan's move to spurn the leadership of Nitish Kumar and contest solo in the coming state elections. Only Nitish Kumar, he declared, will be the Chief Minister, "whatever may be the outcome in terms of numbers".