Nitish Kumar was on Monday sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar for his fourth successive term while the opposition, Grand Alliance boycotted the oath-taking ceremony.

The party forayed into Seemanchal politics in 2015 and could not open its account. It now has a respectable tally and the victories were secured with comfortable margins.

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.

In three different complaints to State Election Commission, Congress alleged that some police officials were trying to influence elections to give an advantage to the ruling party

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.

EC announced that by-polls for the 64 assembly and one parliamentary seats in different states will be held around the same time with the Bihar Assembly polls, dates for which will be announced later.

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.