Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) was always the 'big brother' within the NDA alliance in Bihar till this assembly election.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose Janata Dal (United) won the Assembly elections with BJP as part of National Democratic Alliance (NDA), on Thursday said voters have given the alliance the mandate and it will form the government.

While BJP needs to win just eight of the 27 seats to retain the majority, the results will determine the political future of Jyotiraditya Scindia, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Kamal Nath.

As the bypoll campaign is single-handedly being run by MPCC chief Kamal Nath, a Dalit youth women leader, who recently joined Congress after resigning from the BJP couple of years ago,

Congress politicians in MP are peppering their speeches, social media posts, press notes with pejoratives such as gaddar (traitor) beiman (dishonest), bikau (saleable).

BJP has to win 9 of the 28 bypolls on Nov 3 to retain majority support. But with the party fielding 25 defectors from the Congress, party old-timers are out to ensure the defeat of defectors.

The by-elections for 27 seats in the state was necessitated following resignation of 25 MLAs of the Congress over the last four months and the death of two legislators earlier.

BJP received a jolt in MP with senior party leader Satish Singh Sikarwar, who contested the last assembly polls from the region, joining the Congress along with hundreds of supporters.

The Delhi Police wanted to procure a digital copy of the electoral roll as it wanted to use a software to match the faces digitally to its list of riot suspects, said reports.

Guwahati: Peasant body Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Saturday announced that it will launch a political party to fight the Assam assembly election in 2021 and its jailed leader Akhil Gogoi will be its chief ministerial candidate.

Bhopal Bureau: In the last assembly election, the Bahujan Samaj Party, which is leading the BJP by cutting the votes of the Congress in many seats, is also considered as a big challenge in the Congress by-election.

The man to watch out for is LJP’s Chirag Paswan, who’s been critical of Nitish govt on issues like return of migrant labourers to the state, employment opportunities for them, farmers’ issues etc,

BJP's MTB Nagaraj, R Shankar, Sunil Vallyapure and Pratap Simha Nayak, Congress' BK Hariprasad and Naseer Ahmed, and JD(S)' Govinda Raju were declared elected unopposed to the legislative council.

Bhopal Bureau. The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party are busy in finalizing their preparations for the elections for the 24 assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh. However, in the meantime both the parties are also setting their own pawns.

Elections for 19 Rajya Sabha seats spread across eight states will be held on Friday with the contest in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan promising to be a close affair between the BJP and the Congress.

New Delhi. Before the Rajya Sabha elections, the Congress will file a complaint with the Election Commission today, alleging misuse of power by the Bharatiya Janata Party.