Just a month ahead of the Assam Assembly polls, in a significant political development on Saturday, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) estranged ally Bodoland People's Front (BPF) has announced to snap ties with the party and has joined Congress led grand alliance to fight the assembly polls.
Bihar Chief Mininster Nitish Kumar has said that he has not yet received the list of legislators from BJP which is delaying cabinet expansion in the state.
The last week’s crossover of six of the seven JD(U) MLAs to the BJP in Arunachal Pradesh has triggered discord within Bihar’s ruling alliance.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal-led grand alliance has decided to support Ram Vilas Paswan's wife Reena Paswan in the Rajya Sabha elections if the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) fields her against Sushil Kumar Modi.
The grand alliance of opposition parties in Bihar on Tuesday named Awadh Bihari Choudhury as its candidate for the Speaker's post. Awadh Bihari is a five-time Rashtriya Janata Dal MLA from Siwan. He will take on ruling NDA's nominee Vijay Kumar Sinha. Sinha is a BJP MLA.
In a series of tweets, Chidambaram pointed out how the BJP had won only 218 assembly segments out of 464 it had contested since winning last year’s Lok Sabha polls.
Out of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, only the Congress from the opposition grouping managed to win a seat. The NDA, comprising BJP, Janata Dal (United), and Lok Janashakti Party, won the remaining 39 seats
The Congress managed to win 19 out of the 70 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) it contested in these elections. In 2015, it won 27 out of the 41 it had contested. Compared to 2015, 2020 looks like an underperformance.
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The Congress party’s performance is seen in some quarters as being responsible for the failure of the Mahagathbandhan (MGB) or grand alliance to oust the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in the just-concluded assembly elections in Bihar.
In the recently-concluded 2020 Bihar Elections, CM Nitish Kumar's JD(U) contested 115 seats and won only 43 while NDA ally BJP fielded candidates on 110 seats and managed to win 74 in the 243-member Assembly.
RJD's Shivanand Tiwari had on Sunday blamed the Congress party for Mahagathbandhan's poor performance in the Bihar Assembly elections 2020.
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In the recently concluded Bihar elections, the RJD finished as the single-largest party with 75 seats, while its ally Congress won a mere 19 seats.
Tariq Anwar, who was a member of the party's poll management committee, said there should be an introspection and "we have also demanded that it should happen".
Anwar rejected the assertion that the Congress had got more seats than its capacity to fight and said the party had the strength to contest on 70 seats.
Anwar, party's general secretary and a veteran leader from Bihar, acknowledged that there were shortcomings due to which the Congress performed worse than other 'Mahagathbandhan' constituents and asserted that the high command was serious about an introspection as well as a thorough analysis of the
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The Congress, which contested 70 seats as part of the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan in the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, managed to win only 19, securing only 9.5 per cent of the total vote share.
Ever since the Bihar Election results have come out, the Congress party has led several allegations including the tampering of EVMS. Congress has lost the Bihar by polls with a large margin and not only in Bihar but other states as well. After losing the elections party insiders have cited their own mistakes.Congress’ General Secretary in charge and Bihar Election Committee member has conceded that the Congress Party is responsible for Mahagathbandhan’s defeat in the Bihar Election. He further stated that MIMs entry in Bihar is not a good sign for Congress and that the party must see what went wrong for them.Watch!