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NEW DELHI: Hitting back at Nitish Kumar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said, “Rather than trying to split the Janata Dal (United) and weaken you, the BJP has made you in politics what you are.” Former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that at every available opportunity, the BJP had helped Kumar in […]

PATNA: “I had said one and a half years ago that khela hoga (the game will happen) and today it became reality,” Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tej Pratap Yadav told The New Indian hours after Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar resigned and snapped ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Speaking to The New […]

NEW DELHI: Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar snapped ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party and submitted his resignation to the governor on Tuesday. “I’ve resigned. Everyone in the party wanted to move out of the NDA. “The Governor has accepted the resignation,” Kumar said in Patna. The BJP called this a betrayal of the 2020 […]

NEW DELHI: Amid the recent political development in Bihar and reports of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar speaking to Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, the grand old party feels that Janata Dal-United’s move to ditch the BJP will be good for the people of the state and if he decides to come back to the Grand […]

NEW DELHI: Are the winds of change blowing in Bihar? Amid infighting in the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), sources told The New Indian that Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar spoke to Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi on Sunday evening. A source in the Congress also said that the Bihar CM has sought time from Sonia Gandhi […]

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested Bhola Yadav, a former OSD of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav, in a case of alleged land for job scam. CBI spokesperson RC Joshi said, “We have arrested Bhola Yadav and Hridyanand Choudhary, who worked as a substitute employees of […]

NEW DELHI: At a seemingly show of an anti-BJP front, in a throwback to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and in its run-up when the regional giants had stitched up a combine at the swearing-in of the JDS-Congress-BSP alliance in Karnataka, Mamata Banerjee convinced a galaxy of Opposition leaders to propose Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s […]

NEW DELHI: Is the Bharatiya Janata Party worried about the growing bonhomie between its NDA ally and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Tejashwi, the son of Bihar strongman Lalu Prasad Yadav? There is a growing proximity between Yadav scion and Kumar over the caste-based census. And it was enough to ruffle […]

PATNA/NEW DELHI: A day after two more migrant workers from Bihar were killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar raised his concern over the incident and said that the attacks on the migrants were “intentional”. Kumar also spoke to the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to share his apprehensions. On Sunday, terrorists […]

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tarkishore Prasad replaced Sushil Kumar Modi as the deputy CM of Bihar following the developments that changed Bihar politics scenario in 2020. Since then, Prasad has been actively supporting the JDU alliance CM, Nitish Kumar in the state. Speaking to The New Indian’s Executive Editor Rohan Dua in a special […]