Tag: Nitish Kumar

‘Perplexed’: JD(U) leader writes to Nitish Kumar, questions alliance with BJP in Delhi

Further, JD(U) leader Pavan K Varma stressed for harmony between the party's constitution, its chief's private conviction and its actions taken in public.

January 21, 2020

Nitish Kumar’s warm welcome to Dalai Lama as he visits Patna

The Dalai Lama thereafter offered prayers before a ''Bodhi tree'' at the chief minister's 1, Anney Marg bungalow along with other Buddhist priests.

January 17, 2020

Amit Shah ‘surrenders’ to Nitish’s tantrums, projects him as NDA’s face at Citizenship rally

The move assumes much significance given the BJP losing two states—Maharashtra and Jharkhand—in quick intervals and amply indicates how the party is just in no mood to lose another state of Bihar where assembly elections are due later this year.

January 16, 2020

Twist in Bihar politics: BJP sees ‘huge potentials’ in Tejashwi Yadav as Nitish talks tough

“Tejashwi Yadav is an intelligent and energetic leader and has tremendous possibilities. We will welcome him if he is willing to join the NDA,” BJP leader Sanjay Paswan told the media on Monday evening adding that politics is a game of possibilities.

January 14, 2020

Nationwide NRC ‘needless, has no justification’, says Nitish Kumar, rules out implementation in Bihar

Signalling for the first time, his reservations on the controversial law, Kumar emphasized in the state assembly that NRC was in discussions only in the context of Assam and that PM Modi has also clarified on it.

January 13, 2020

Neither CAA nor NRC would be implemented in Bihar: Prashant Kishor

Even as the JD-U strongly supported the Citizenship bill in Parliament, one of its top leaders and party’s national vice-president Prashant Kishor on Sunday formally declared that the new Citizenship law or the CAA as well as the National Register for Citizens (NRC) won’t be implemented in Bihar.

January 12, 2020

Nitish Kumar’s human chain programme in trouble as Opposition, teachers boycott

He has been making fervent appeals to the masses to conserve greenery and water while telling them to join in large numbers to ensure the next generation lives with peace and comfort.

January 9, 2020

Jailed Lalu continues to rob sleep of Modi, entire NDA in Bihar

This was clearly visible on Monday again when a Press Conference organised by the BJP in Gaya over the issue of CAA was used to mount heavy attacks on Prasad, currently undergoing treatment at a government hospital in Ranchi under judicial custody.

January 7, 2020

Bihar NDA partners locked in further confrontation, this time over NPR

While the deputy chief minister and senior-most BJP leader from Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi declared that the updation process of the contentious NPR would begin from May, the JD-U has rejected such announcement saying no such decision has been taken by the state government so far.

January 5, 2020

Most Bihar ministers grew ‘poorer’ compared to their wives

Sounds bizarre but that’s what reveals the details of assets as declared by the ministers in the year-end.

January 2, 2020

Fresh trouble in NDA as Nitish’s party rejects BJP’s 50:50 formula

Trouble began after JD-U’s national vice-president Prashant Kishor, considered very close to chief minister Nitish Kumar, gave his interview to some news channel declaring that in no way JD-U-BJP would contest on an equal number of seats in the 2020 assembly elections in Bihar.

January 1, 2020

After Jharkhand victory, Tejashwi Yadav shares father Lalu’s message to RJD workers

The message of Lalu Prasad, who is in Ranchi serving sentences in fodder scam cases, was relayed by his younger son and heir-apparent Tejashwi Yadav

December 26, 2019

Bihar Opposition leaders booked for organising bandh against Citizenship Law

According to Patna Police, Tejashwi Yadav, the former deputy chief minister and current leader of the opposition in the state assembly, is among 27 people mentioned in addition to 'hundreds of unnamed ones' against whom an FIR was lodged late Saturday night at the Kotwali police station.

December 23, 2019

Nitish Kumar says won’t implement NRC in Bihar, Muslims not “ready” to trust him

“Kahe ka NRC? Kyon lagu hoga NRC (Why the NRC will be implemented in Bihar)?” shot back Nitish when asked by newsmen for his comment on Centre’s plan to roll out the NRC.

December 20, 2019

Posters questioning Nitish’s silence over CAA, NRC flood Patna

It is believed the posters were pasted either during late last night or early in the morning but the officials have been clueless over it and have begun investigation into the matter.

December 17, 2019

After backing CAB, Nitish Kumar declares not to implement NRC in Bihar, speculations rife

The move assumes much political significance given the coming assembly elections in the state due only next year.

December 15, 2019

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor offers to quit after criticizing JD(U) on CAA, Nitish Kumar says no

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced that poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s consultancy firm I-PAC has come on board with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

December 15, 2019