Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi of the RJD, whose political fortunes would be decided in two Yadav-dominated constituencies in Bihar’s third-phase Assembly polls for 48 seats on Thursday, faces her life’s toughest electoral battles in the party’s pocket boroughs.

Even as a case was registered at a Bihar court against JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav on Tuesday for his unseemly personal remarks about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, equally indecorous comments and charges were made by senior leaders of the BJP, RJD and the Congress as they spoke on Mr Yadav’s words.

The second phase of the Bihar Assembly elections on Sunday — for 45 seats — registered an average 52.55 per cent voting, around two per cent less than the first phase three days ago, possibly due to f

Choosing to be better late than never in releasing its manifesto for Bihar, the Congress has kept up its stress on youth empowerment and promised employment to one lakh young people every year and pro

The political war-of-words in Bihar’s election campaigns became hotter on Monday with top leaders, including L.K. Advani, Rahul Gandhi, Nitish Kumar, Sharad Yadav and Lalu Prasad Yadav, making fiery speeches to woo voters for the remaining four phases of the Assembly polls.

With Bihar’s second phase of Assembly polls for 45 seats in largely rural areas spread across six northern districts being held on Sunday, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s past magic and present makeover would face their real test due to the sizeable presence of the Yadav and Paswan communities in these former RJD-LJP strongholds.

As campaigning for the second phase of Bihar’s Assembly polls reached its final hours on Friday evening, the state’s political arch rivals — chief minister Nitish Kumar of the NDA and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav — were engaged in a satirical slugfest from their campaign podiums.

The first phase of Bihar’s Assembly polls for 47 of its 243 constituencies passed off peacefully amid high security deployment on Thursday, with 54.31 per cent of voters casting their ballots despite

The BJP’s political goat in Bihar has come face to face with nature’s monkeys in almost a tragicomic fashion in Saharsa district, where voting in the first phase of Assembly polls is scheduled for Thursday.

The first of Bihar’s six-phase Assembly polls is beginning on Thursday in 47 constituencies in eight impoverished north-eastern districts in an atypical political atmosphere marked by the absence of any distinct wave to dominate the voters’ hearts and minds as they choose who to vote for.