Freshs strain between Bihar’s JD(U) and the BJP after chief minister Nitish Kumar’s bitter protests over advertisements praising Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi got a last-minute balm on Sunday in senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s speech at the end of a BJP rally.

In an emotional speech to a large, applauding Bihar crowd on Sunday, Gujarat chief minister and BJP icon Narendra Modi tried hard to melt the boycott imposed on him in Bihar by the ruling NDA ally JD(U) for some years and fiercely attacked Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, blaming her for the UPA government’s ills.

The fresh strains between Bihar’s JD(U) and the BJP after chief minister Nitish Kumar’s bitter protests against advertisements praising Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi got a last-minute balm on Sunday in senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s speech at the end of the BJP rally.

The BJP’s controversial Hindutva icon, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday sent ripples across Bihar’s political spectrum without speaking a word and brought the BJP and the JD(U) on an

The BJP on Saturday mounted a comprehensive and gritty attack on the UPA government at its national executive meeting in Patna, dissecting the UPA-2’s first year issue by issue and calling the Congres

A day after his maiden visit to Patna as the new Congress in-charge of Bihar offered him glimpses of the still smouldering factionalism in the party’s state unit, Mr Mukul Wasnik on Friday stressed the importance of restoring unity and cohesion and pledged to steer the party to victory in Bihar’s forthcoming Assembly polls. Even though

The top echelons of the BJP and the movers and shakers from all its state units are gathering for a two-day national executive meet in the capital of poll-bound Bihar beginning on Saturday to deliberate on the party’s future national course of action and set off the Bihar poll campaigns.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s 63rd birthday celebration at his Patna home on Friday had less pomp than before but was markedly loaded with political symbolism with an eye on Bihar’s looming Assembly polls. The event was more political in nature than personal.

The BJP on Thursday described the Congress’ response to the disclosures in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict as “conspicuous silence” and obliquely alleged that former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson’s release shortly after his arrest and his leaving India were masterminded by senior Congress leaders of the time.

The BJP leaders in Bihar, currently preparing to make a success of the party’s two-day national executive meet in Patna beginning on June 12, are trying hard to persuade chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar to address a massive rally the saffron party has planned on the second day of its conclave.