Bihar’s long fascination with bursting Diwali firecrackers bearing the names and pictures of top regional leaders like Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar has gone ahead this time to add Sonia Gandhi a

Congress youth icon Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday robustly answered back National Democratic Alliance leaders’ recent personal attacks on him in his most passionate and personal speeches yet in three crowded campaign meetings in Bihar, seeking to overturn the NDA’s charges that he was a political greenhorn.

The irrepressible RJD chief, Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav, has asked Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit to build more public urinals in the national capital instead of carping about the swarms of migrant Biharis dirtying the city.

With corruption being widely perceived as a major stigma in Bihar’s NDA regime despite the signs of development, chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar on Tuesday told voters that the next big task on his mind was to seize corrupt people’s properties and open schools there.

Stung by the Congress party’s continuing frontal attacks on his government, Bihar chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar on Monday advised Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to first prove his political mettle by becoming chief minister of a state before becoming India’s Prime Minister.

Fear prevailed in many areas during Bihar’s fourth phase of Assembly polls on Monday due to bomb blasts and the Maoists’ diktat for poll boycott, but an average 51 per cent voting was registered in the eight south-eastern and central districts where polling was conducted for 42 constituencies.

In parts of Bihar where the Left parties’ erstwhile appeal got some areas popularly nicknamed as the state’s Leningrad and Moscow, the ongoing Assembly polls are as much a challenge as an opportunity

The fourth phase of Assembly polls in Bihar being held on Monday for 42 seats in the state’s south-eastern and central parts are going to be a litmus test for the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP alliance g

An estimated 14 per cent voters cast their votes in the early hours of polling in 42 Assembly constituencies in Bihar on Monday where Maoists triggered a blast in Betia forest and unidentified persons

Congress general secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday extolled Bihar’s people for their industriousness as he heightened his attacks on the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in the state, saying Biharis were shining everywhere but Bihar was not progressing despite the state government’s hype.