Nitish Kumar Presidential Poll

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  71 Seats, 1,066 Candidates, 2.14 Crore Voters In Bihar Election 1st Phase

  The first phase of the Bihar Assembly election will be held today, with 2.14 crore voters heading to polling booths across 71 constituencies to decide the fate of 1,066 candidates. This is the first major election to be held anywhere in the world amid the Covid pandemic - at least until the United States holds its presidential election on November ...

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  Special Pen With Violet Ink For Lawmakers To Vote In President Poll

  Legislators and parliamentarians who will vote to elect the country's next President cannot carry their personal pens into the voting room, the Election Commission or EC said.

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  Teams Lalu And Nitish Meet Separately Today, Sonia Gandhi Asked To Mediate

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav have called meetings of the party's lawmakers in Patna on Sunday, separately, to prep their lawmakers for Monday's presidential polls but the two party bosses are also expected to speak their mind on the ongoing rift in the Bihar's ruling coalition over demands that Lalu Yadav's son Tejashwi b...

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  Nitish Kumar's Party Repeats History In Backing Warring Camps in 2 Polls

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday sealed its support for Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the opposition's joint candidate for the Vice President, the second time that the party's lawmakers will support the government's candidate for presidential elections and the opposition in the vice presidential polls. But the similar...

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  Have Asked Lawmakers To Vote According To Conscience, Says Meira Kumar

  The ideologies and principles that Indians believe in and due to which the country is united, are under threat, the Opposition's presidential nominee Meira Kumar claimed today adding that she has asked MPs and MLAs to vote according to their conscience.

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  'Bihar Ki Beti' Meira Kumar Has Been Nominated Only To Lose: Nitish Kumar On Presidential Polls

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today made it clear that while he deeply respects Meira Kumar, the opposition's candidate for President, he will not reconsider his decision to back Ram Nath Kovind, the BJP's nominee for the country's top post.

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  Highlights: BJP's Sushil Modi On Nitish Kumar Backing President Choice

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar yesterday announced that he will back the BJP nominee for President, Ram Nath Kovind. His decision has been a huge setback for the opposition parties who have been in discussion with Congress vice president Sonia Gandhi to field a joint candidate for the Presidential polls that are scheduled to take place on July 1...

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  No Offence, But No, Says BJP On President Pranab's 2nd Term: Sources

  Nitish Kumar and co are attempting to force a choice on the government by suggesting that it nominate President Pranab Mukherjee for a second term as a consensus candidate of all parties, top sources in the BJP told NDTV, stating that the opposition must respect the situation as it is today.

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  At Karunanidhi's Birthday Bash, Presidential Polls To Be On The Table

  As the Congress takes the lead to mobilise consensus over an opposition candidate for the next presidential election in July, a grand birthday bash next month to celebrate DMK chief M Karunanidhi's 94th birthday in Chennai could give the opposition leaders an opportunity to sit across the table to shape up their strategy for the July election, and ...

• Vice-President Ansari? Congress hoping to win Mamata's endorsement

  The Congress has its mind set on fielding Hamid Ansari for the vice-president's post as the UPA's candidate and it seems to have enough numbers in support, despite the fact that estranged ally Mamata Banerjee is not on board for this election either. She is reportedly unhappy with Mr Ansari's likely candidacy, much as she was with that of Pranab Mu...

• Patna is for President Pranab, not candidate Pranab, says Nitish Kumar

  On July 12, Pranab Mukherjee will head to Ranchi to ask MPs and state legislators to vote for him in the election for President of India. This is also the closest the former Finance Minister may get to neighbouring Patna.

• JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav issues gag orders to end war of words with BJP

  Janata Dal (United) chief Sharad Yadav has issued gag orders on leaders of his party to end the war of words with its ally the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP top leadership too has refused to be drawn into the controversy. This comes at a time when the NDA is trying to avoid a coalition breakdown over differences in their stand with regard t...

• Nitish Kumar gets thank you call from President-in-waiting Pranab Mukherjee

  Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar, received a vote of thanks from Pranab Mukherjee this morning, in advance of the votes Mr Kumar's party has promised him in the election for President of India. That has got to hurt his partner, the BJP. It retaliated, not subtly, by marching in the streets today with posters of Narendra Modi, the Gujarat ch...

• President poll: Is Nitish pro-Pranab because he's anti-Modi?

  Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, has made good on his warning to his political spouse, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). His party today said that it will not back PA Sangma for president, even though the BJP has endorsed him as its candidate.

• Highlights: Nitish Kumar on Presidential polls

  Bihar Chief Minister and senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar speaks on his party's stand on its presidential candidate.