Chirag Paswan Bihar Voting

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan on Tuesday won the Hajipur Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, where he defeated the nearest RJD rival by over 1.70 lakh votes, the Election Commission said.

Nitish Kumar today appeared to be asking for votes for late Ram Vilas Paswan, the veteran leader from Bihar who died in 2020. However, the 73-year-old Chief Minister quickly course corrected and pitched for Chirag Paswan, the late leader's son.

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan on Saturday attributed a relatively low voter turnout in Bihar in the first phase of Lok Sabha polls to "no challenge faced by the NDA" in the state.

By-polls in Bihar's two assembly seats -- Mokama and Gopalganj -- will be held on November 3. Votes will be counted on November 6.

A day after five of six Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MPs broke away in a stunning coup led by his uncle, Chirag Paswan's attempts at reconciliation were roundly snubbed.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose Janata Dal United has suffered a body blow in the elections due to the Chirag Paswan factor, on Thursday said he has left the decision regarding the Lok Janshakti Party chief to the BJP.

After weeks of bitter campaigning, three phases of voting, over 15 hours of counting, and allegations of cheating, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was announced as winner of the Bihar election in the (very) early hours of Wednesday. Boosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rallies, the NDA eased past the majority mark of 122 in the ...

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan has praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the BJP's better-than-expected performance in the Bihar election. He said the results show people's continuing trust on the BJP stalwart. He said his party fought the election well and saw a marginal increase in its vote share.

A day before the counting of votes in Bihar, Rashtriya Janata Dal's Tejashwi Yadav received birthday greetings from Chirag Paswan, who along with him, was part of the pincer movement on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the recently concluded assembly elections.

The threat of coronavirus could not affect polling in the third and final phase of Bihar state elections, with 55.22 per cent people turning up to vote -- a shade lower than the 56.66 per cent in 2015. Two of three exit polls so far have predicted an advantage for the alliance of Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Congress and the Left part...

The third and final phase of Bihar Assembly polls today will confirm that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will never become the chief minister again, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Chirag Paswan said on Saturday.

All eyes are now on the polling for the third and final phase of Assembly election in Bihar today, in which stakes are quite high for the ruling NDA, trying to avert the anti-incumbency factor, and the opposition Grand Alliance led by Lalu Yadav's RJD.

Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Yadav's bail hearing in a fodder scam case was deferred today to November 27 as the CBI didn't file its arguments before the Jharkhand High Court.

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan on Thursday said questions being raised by Congress and Mahagathbandhan over the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) show that they have accepted their defeat in the ensuing Bihar Assembly polls and termed it as a good sign for BJP-LJP.

Chirag Paswan, after voting in the second round of the Bihar election today, said he "could give in writing" that Nitish Kumar will never be Chief Minister again.

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan on Tuesday won the Hajipur Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, where he defeated the nearest RJD rival by over 1.70 lakh votes, the Election Commission said.

Nitish Kumar today appeared to be asking for votes for late Ram Vilas Paswan, the veteran leader from Bihar who died in 2020. However, the 73-year-old Chief Minister quickly course corrected and pitched for Chirag Paswan, the late leader's son.

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan on Saturday attributed a relatively low voter turnout in Bihar in the first phase of Lok Sabha polls to "no challenge faced by the NDA" in the state.

By-polls in Bihar's two assembly seats -- Mokama and Gopalganj -- will be held on November 3. Votes will be counted on November 6.

A day after five of six Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MPs broke away in a stunning coup led by his uncle, Chirag Paswan's attempts at reconciliation were roundly snubbed.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose Janata Dal United has suffered a body blow in the elections due to the Chirag Paswan factor, on Thursday said he has left the decision regarding the Lok Janshakti Party chief to the BJP.

After weeks of bitter campaigning, three phases of voting, over 15 hours of counting, and allegations of cheating, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was announced as winner of the Bihar election in the (very) early hours of Wednesday. Boosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rallies, the NDA eased past the majority mark of 122 in the ...

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan has praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the BJP's better-than-expected performance in the Bihar election. He said the results show people's continuing trust on the BJP stalwart. He said his party fought the election well and saw a marginal increase in its vote share.

A day before the counting of votes in Bihar, Rashtriya Janata Dal's Tejashwi Yadav received birthday greetings from Chirag Paswan, who along with him, was part of the pincer movement on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the recently concluded assembly elections.

The threat of coronavirus could not affect polling in the third and final phase of Bihar state elections, with 55.22 per cent people turning up to vote -- a shade lower than the 56.66 per cent in 2015. Two of three exit polls so far have predicted an advantage for the alliance of Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Congress and the Left part...

The third and final phase of Bihar Assembly polls today will confirm that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will never become the chief minister again, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Chirag Paswan said on Saturday.

All eyes are now on the polling for the third and final phase of Assembly election in Bihar today, in which stakes are quite high for the ruling NDA, trying to avert the anti-incumbency factor, and the opposition Grand Alliance led by Lalu Yadav's RJD.

Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Yadav's bail hearing in a fodder scam case was deferred today to November 27 as the CBI didn't file its arguments before the Jharkhand High Court.

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan on Thursday said questions being raised by Congress and Mahagathbandhan over the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) show that they have accepted their defeat in the ensuing Bihar Assembly polls and termed it as a good sign for BJP-LJP.

Chirag Paswan, after voting in the second round of the Bihar election today, said he "could give in writing" that Nitish Kumar will never be Chief Minister again.