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After Nitish Kumar was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the ninth time, netizens on the internet couldn't resist turning his political stunt into meme material.
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hit out at the INDIA bloc as soon as Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee announced to go solo in West Bengal in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Nitish Kumar is unlikely to attend the opposition INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi on December 6. Instead, Lalan Singh and Sanjay Kumar Jha will represent the party.
After using derogatory terms on women and population control in the Bihar Assembly, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has apologized for the remarks following an uproar from the opposition.
In a shocking development, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has used few derogatory terms while explaining the population control and women's education in front of the state assembly
Union Home Minister Amit Shah hit out at the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government accusing it of “deliberately” showing an inflated population of Muslims and Yadavs in the state's caste survey.
The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar released findings of its much-awaited caste survey months on Monday ahead of the 2024 parliamentary election.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma launched a scathing attack on the INDIA bloc claiming that Nitish Kumar is fated to isolation if he opts to continue with the alliance. He also attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
As the entire nation celebrated successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander on lunar surface yesterday (Aug 23), Indian politicians, the opposition in particular, shredded their knowledge on India's Space Missions.
In a shocking development, an ambulance was stopped in Patna when the convoy of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was passing through. Several videos of the incident went viral on social media.
Political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor criticized the caste census in Bihar undertaken by the Nitish Kumar-led government. His comments came after Patna High Court, on Tuesday, dismissed all petitions challenging the conduct of a caste census in Bihar.
At least one person was killed and two others were injured after the police allegedly opened fire to disperse a mob who were protesting in Bihar's Katihar against the electricity department. The residents of a village near Barsoi town in Katihar gathered outside the electricity department to protest against the irregular supply of electricity and higher power tariffs.
The BJP on Friday likened Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to Brigadier General Reginald Dyer, who was involved in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and demanded his resignation after a party leader died allegedly in a police lathi-charge in Patna.
The BJP has alleged that one of its leaders died after police in Patna fired tear gas shells, used water cannons, and resorted to a lathi charge to stop party workers from marching to the Bihar Assembly today. The march was part of a massive protest organized by the party against the “corruption” carried out by the Nitish Kumar-led state government.
Heated scenes were witnessed at a meeting of the ruling alliance in Bihar today with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar pulling up an MLC from ally Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on the first day of the Monsoon Session of the Bihar Assembly, according to sources.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said in the next Lok Sabha polls, people will choose between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, whom the Congress "has tried to launch unsuccessfully 20 times."
Amid opposition efforts to forge a joint front against the BJP for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday (May 15) that the parties which are strong in a particular region should fight together.
A delegation of All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) led by MP Maulana Badruddin Ajmal met with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday (May 13) and discussed the politics of Assam.
Proceeding ahead to achieve the mission of uniting the entire Opposition to take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today declined to speak on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from the Lok Sabha, saying he avoided doing so in matters involving court orders. However, Kumar said his party, the JD(U), has commented on the issue.
Bihar will witness a major show of strength between the ruling Mahagathbandhan and opposition NDA today as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the BJP's principal strategist, criss-cross the state as they campaign for their respective political fronts.
The Bihar BJP state executive has passed a resolution to “never align with Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar again”, the party’s state co-in-charge, Vinod Tawde, told reporters on Sunday.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been "cautioned" about a conspiracy, by a sulking leader of his party who is said to be on his way out. Upendra Kushwaha, who is widely believed to be in talks with the BJP, pitched himself as Nitish Kumar's defender as he denied any move to quit his party.
Janata Dal (United) leader Upendra Kushwaha on Sunday fueled the speculation of him joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after meeting a saffron party leader. He also suggested that the "JD(U) is getting weaker".
In barely five months of the formation, the gap in Mahagathbandhan (grand coalition) in Bihar seems to have widened between the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Janta Dal United (JDU), with both parties engaging in a verbal spat against each other.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday called on the Bihar government to reconsider its decision to buy a jet engine aircraft and an advanced helicopter to replace the faulty ones for the movement of top political executives and senior bureaucrats.
The death toll in the Chhapra hooch tragedy, due to the consumption of spurious liquor, in Bihar's Saran district has soared to 70 today (December 17). In the wake of the Hooch tragedy in Chhapra, the Station House Officer (SHO) Ritesh Mishra and Constable Vikesh Tiwari were suspended on Thursday with immediate effect on the recommendation of Marhaura Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Yogendra Kumar.
The toll of dead people in Bihar’s Chhapra Hooch tragedy has soared to 50, with 11 more people succumbing after consuming spurious liquor in the Saran district.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said Friday his government would not provide financial compensation to the families of those killed by consuming spurious/illegal liquor. The Janata Dal (United) boss - under sustained fire from the opposition after the death toll from the latest hooch tragedy in the nominally dry state crossed 50 - told the state Assembly 'no compensation will be given' and underlined his 'if you drink, you will die warning.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today rejected the possibility of giving compensation to the families of those killed by spurious liquor and said people should be "more vigilant" when the state anyway has prohibited it since 2016.
Nitish Kumar today announced that his deputy Tejashwi Yadav would lead the ruling coalition in the 2025 Bihar election, designating him as his next-in-line and starting the countdown on his own term as Chief Minister. "I am not the Prime Ministerial candidate or Chief Ministerial candidate. My goal is to defeat the BJP," Nitish Kumar said at a meeting of Bihar's ruling coalition this evening.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar lost his cool inside the Assembly when BJP MLAs tried to target him over the Chhapra hooch tragedy in which seventeen people died.
Former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushi Modi on Thursday demanded chief minister Nitish Kumar resign since the Bharatiya Janata Party - a former ally of the ruling Janta Dal (United) - has won the bypoll for the Kurhani Assembly seat.
A day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that Prashant Kishor had once asked him to merge his Janata Dal (United) with the Congress party and that the poll strategist was now working for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Kishor hit back Sunday, charging that Nitish was “getting delusional” with age as well as “politically isolated and nervous” in the company of his “untrustworthy” associates.
Election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor on Wednesday said he would not work for Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, not even if Nitish vacates the CM's chair for him. Prashant Kishor said he has made a promise to the people that can't be changed. He has also revealed that in the last meeting between them -- after Nitish Kumar walked out of the NDA alliance in Bihar and became the chief minister of the Mahagathbandhan in the state -- he was requested by Nitish Kumar to join the JD(U).
"Two ministers have resigned in the two-month-old government. Means two wickets have fallen. Nitish Kumar is yet to suffer more. This fight has now turned into a Jagda Babu vs Nitish Kumar. Could Jagda Babu also be the next wicket?" Modi asked.
All Opposition parties need to unite to defeat the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Sunday. Kumar, along with other Opposition leaders NCP chief Sharad Pawar and CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, was attending a rally organized by former Haryana chief minister and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief Om Prakash Chautala in Haryana’s Fatehabad.
Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are set to arrive in Bihar’s Seemanchal region on Friday, a visit being keenly watched following the National Investigation Agency’s raids against the Popular Front of India in Purnia and Araria districts, along with locations in other states.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar -- said to be jockeying for the position of the Opposition's Prime Ministerial candidate -- issued yet another denial today about his reported ambition. Asked about a buzz that he will contest the parliamentary election from Phulpur in 2024, he said "I am shocked. There is no such thing".
It’s Prashant Kishor vs Nitish Kumar again, one sharp remark at a time. The poll strategist on Thursday delivered a strong rebuttal after the Bihar chief minister said: “Does he know the ABC of what has happened since 2005?” Nitish Kumar’s comments - during his Delhi visit - were in response to his former party colleague’s criticism of the state government.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on the second day of his visit to Delhi continued to meet leaders of non-NDA parties as part of efforts to forge broad-based Opposition unity against the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
A day after five Janata Dal (United) MLAs from Manipur merged with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), party leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Saturday said that the state has become JDU-free. He exuded confidence that the BJP will very soon break the "Mahagathbandhan" alliance of Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress in Bihar.
As Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao met Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday, a video clip of their press conference has gone viral, courtesy of BJP leaders. It was when KCR was asked about the alliance of the opposition parties for the 2024 Lok Sabha election and whether Congress would have a role in it. In the video, it can be seen that while KCR is engaged in answering the question, Nitish Kumar urges him to dismiss such questions.
The lone Janata Dal (United) MLA in Arunachal Pradesh, Techi Kaso has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Twenty six other prominent people also joined the ruling party today.
Jailed don Anant Singh and his right-hand man, Bihar’s new Law Minister Kartikeya Kumar, have become a headache for the newly sworn-in Nitish Kumar-Tejashwi Yadav government in the state.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had endorsed now estranged aide RCP Singh as the Janata Dal-United faces in the Union cabinet, Home Minister Amit Shah said at the BJP's meeting on Bihar yesterday, sources said.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will expand his two-member cabinet today, with the biggest chunk of seats going to alliance partner Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), sources have said.
Former JD(U) leader and diplomat Pavan Varma on Friday resigned from the Trinamool Congress, days after Nitish Kumar returned to the Mahagathbandhan, breaking JD(U)'s alliance with the NDA in Bihar. Pavan Varma was sacked from the JD(U) over the issue of the Citizenship Amendment Act as he did not agree with the stand of Nitish Kumar on the issue. He then joined the Trinamool Congress.
Some people in Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party wanted him to become Vice President, BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi told reporters today. Modi, who was Kumar's deputy before he became a Rajya Sabha MP, said the same Janata Dal (United) leaders approached him with a plan that he could become Bihar Chief Minister if Kumar goes to Delhi as Vice President.
Janata Dal(U) leader Nitish Kumar on August 10 took oath as Chief Minister for the eighth time and Tejashwi Yadav as his Deputy in the cabinet again at state Raj Bhawan in Patna.
