Tag: Nitish Kumar
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‘Frightening picture’: Prashant Kishor tweets video of migrant workers locked up, asks Nitish Kumar to quit
Earlier on Saturday, Prashant Kishor had hit out at the Centre calling the 21-day lockdown 'botched up', adding that 'India deserves better'.
March 30, 2020 -
CAG report pulls up Nitish Kumar govt for careless utilization of funds
The CAG is especially amazed at the unnecessary withdrawals from the Contingency Fund and using the borrowed funds for repayment of borrowings and interests thereupon.
March 17, 2020 -
Friends and family get key place in Lalu’s party, Shahabuddin left out
This is for the first time in the history of the RJD which was formed in 1997 that Shahabuddin has been kept out of the party’s executive.
March 5, 2020 -
Coordination panel to study NPR issues in Maharashtra: CM Uddhav Thackeray
A total of six states have passed the resolution against NPR amid rising opposition to the contentious CAA.
March 3, 2020 -
Big ‘strategic blunder’ by Nitish ahead of Bihar assembly polls
The chief minister is drawing ridicule from his opponents for poor turnouts at this important JD-U programme meet organised on his birthday.
March 2, 2020 -
Amid growing speculations, Nitish says NDA is intact in Bihar
The “clarification” assumes significance in the light of the prevailing speculations about his growing proximity with Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav from the RJD in the recent week during which he had held two successive closed-door meetings with the latter in the Bihar assembly.
March 1, 2020 -
Raised Delhi violence at EZC meet: Mamata
Miss Banerjee expressed concern over the communal clashes in Delhi that have claimed at least 42 lives and said that steps should be taken so that the situation doesn't aggravate further.
February 29, 2020 -
Bihar assembly passes resolution, not to implement NRC
The House also passed the resolution not to implement the National Population Register (NPR) in the 2010 format.
February 25, 2020 -
Prashant Kishor sparks speculation ahead of assembly polls, meets Bihar oppn leaders
However, amidst all the latest development, Prashant Kishor has ruled out joining another political party or coalition.
February 21, 2020 -
Nitish Kumar ‘treated me like son’, won’t question his call: Prashant Kishor on expulsion from JD(U)
Kishor, who was addressing his first press conference after his expulsion from JD(U), further announced a 'Baat Bihar Ki' programme to reach out to thousands of the state's youth voters.
February 18, 2020 -
Nitish Kumar in serious trouble with huge dependency on BJP vote-bank
The poor performance of his party, the JD-U, on two seats in Delhi which he contested in alliance with the BJP—first such alliance in over a decade outside Bihar—speaks volumes about how Nitish failed to leave his impact on migrant Bihari voters.
February 12, 2020 -
Woman transforms barren hilly terrain into a ‘green zone’
Her initiative has now earned kudos from various quarters for her passion for greenery, something for what the state government has been trying hard for long.
February 4, 2020 -
Twist in Bihar politics: ‘Job done’, Prashant Kishor and Pavan Varma shown door
Poll strategist Kishor was working as the national vice-president whereas Varma, a diplomat-turned-politician, had been serving as party’s national general secretary-cum national spokesperson.
January 29, 2020 -
JD(U) expels Prashant Kishor, Pavan Varma for revolting against Nitish Kumar’s pro-CAA stand
Yesterday, after JD(U) national vice president Prashant Kishor’s tweet challenging Amit Shah on CAA, the Bihar Chief Minister and party chief Nitish Kumar on Tuesday distanced himself from the leader.
January 29, 2020 -
‘One can stay in party till he wants, he can go if he wants’: Nitish Kumar on Prashant Kishor
'He can go wherever he wants. I wish him well,' Nitish Kumar told reporters on the question about Pavan Varma's letter.
January 28, 2020 -
Researchers mistaken for NRC surveyors held hostage in Bihar
The situation was defused at the police station where officials verified the identities of the researchers who were from a Lucknow-based research organization, engaged by a US-based Ph.D. scholar.
January 27, 2020 -
‘He can join any party he likes, best wishes’: Nitish Kumar snubs JD(U) leader after criticism
Former Janata Dal (United) minister Pavan K Varma, in a public letter to Kumar, had on Tuesday confessed that he is 'perplexed' with the decision of JD(U) to fight the Delhi election in alliance with the BJP.
January 23, 2020