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  • For Panthic votes, Sukhbir Singh Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) prefers Left to BJP

    With Sukhbir Singh Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) striving to regain Panthic support and unite all Akali Dal factions, Punjab-based party leaders feel the environment is not favourable for alliance with former decades-old ally BJP.

    Akali leaders believe the party would continue its alliance with BSP and may form a grand alliance by joining hands with Left parties, including CPM and CPI.

    Last month, on Akali Dal’s 103rd anniversary, Badal apologised for his government’s “administrative failures” in the 2015 sacrilege cases and urged for breakaway reunification for Panthic unity. He publicly apologised for failing to apprehend Guru Granth Sahib desecration culprits in 2015 under his tenure.Akali Dal has always highlighted Sikh issues, but after the defeat in 2022 assembly polls, Badal has been trying to reclaim panthic votes and shared the stage with hardline Sikh leaders like SAD (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann and Sikh preacher Baljit Singh Dadduwal. Recently, Badal and the SGPC president visited the family of Late Akal Takht Jathedar Gurdev Singh Kaunke and pledged full support to them. Kaunke’s family claims six police officers killed the Sikh spiritual leader.

    Senior Akali Dal leader Balwinder Singh Bhunder believes the party would prioritise religion and agriculture (Panth te Kisani). Bhunder stated “the situation and circumstances are not conducive for alliance with BJP.” Both parties will struggle to agree ideologically, especially with the current BJP leadership.”

    He added that beside BSP there are many options for SAD, including Left parties such as CPM and CPI. The party had allied with Left parties in the past as well.SAD leader Naresh Gujral also ruled out alliance with BJP, saying, “there is no scope.”Akali Dal, the founder of NDA and BJP’s oldest ally, moved out of the ruling alliance in 2020, following the protest over the three farm laws. The laws were later taken back by the government.

  • Bihar Chief Minister likely to expand his cabinet on August 16

    Express News Service

    PATNA: Cabinet extension exercise of the newly formed Grand Alliance (GA) or Mahagathbandhan government of chief minister Nitish Kumar is likely to be undertaken on August 16, a week before seeking a trust vote on the floor of the assembly on August 24.

    Deputy chief minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav called on chief minister Nitish Kumar soon after he came to Patna from New Delhi late on Saturday. Sources said the two leaders discussed the portfolios to be allotted to the legislators of the seven constituents of GA.

    Adding a twist to the cabinet expansion exercise, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM has demanded that a deputy chief minister should be made from the Muslim community. The lone AIMIM legislator Akhtarul Iman said that the ruling alliance has a maximum vote share of the minority community (Muslim).

    “When ministers are appointed on the basis of caste, accordingly there should be a Muslim Deputy CM,” he asserted. Former chief minister and RJD national president Lalu Prasad Yadav are likely to attend the oath-taking ceremony of the new ministers. Prasad, who had played a significant role in forging the alliance with JD(U) and other non-BJP parties, will reach Patna on Monday.

    Nitish-Tejashwi Yadav government has set formula for allotting one ministerial berth to a party per every 4 MLAs. As per the formula, the RJD will be the party with the most cabinet berths with 18 ministers expected to be inducted from the party into the new cabinet.

    ALSO READ | CPI-ML to extend outside support to JD(U)- RJD government in Bihar  

    Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) is expected to have 12 ministers in the new cabinet. Congress is expected to get four berths. The CPI-ML has decided not to get any ministerial berth in the cabinet and announced to extend its support to the government from outside.

    However, Congress in charge of Bihar Bhakt Charan Das on Sunday said that the party will get three ministerial berths, with two taking oath on August 16 and one more to be inducted in the next cabinet expansion. CPI, CPM and HAM are likely to get one berth each. HAM led by former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi is pressuring for two berths in the new council of ministers. Besides, one Independent legislator is likely to be inducted into the new cabinet.

    Nitish Kumar had claimed that the ruling alliance has the support of 164 MLAs and an Independent legislator. The strength of the Bihar legislative assembly is 243. Sources said that the new Speaker of the assembly will be from RJD. The names of Awadh Bihari Choudhary and Alok Kumar Mehta are doing the rounds for the Speaker’s post. RJD is also eying the home department, which Nitish has kept with him since he became the chief minister.

    ALSO READ | ‘Nitish wanted to protect nexus between PFI, Bihar officials’: BJP attacks Bihar CM

    The Mahagathbandhan government will go for a floor test on August 24. A special session of the legislative assembly has been convened for two days. A new Speaker has to be elected by the legislators of the ruling alliance. The Mahagathbandhan legislators have also moved a ‘no trust’ motion against incumbent

    Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha is from the BJP quota. Sinha on Sunday said that he would continue to discharge his constitutional duty and would unfurl the tri-colour at Bihar Vidhan Sabha on August 15.

    PATNA: Cabinet extension exercise of the newly formed Grand Alliance (GA) or Mahagathbandhan government of chief minister Nitish Kumar is likely to be undertaken on August 16, a week before seeking a trust vote on the floor of the assembly on August 24.

    Deputy chief minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav called on chief minister Nitish Kumar soon after he came to Patna from New Delhi late on Saturday. Sources said the two leaders discussed the portfolios to be allotted to the legislators of the seven constituents of GA.

    Adding a twist to the cabinet expansion exercise, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM has demanded that a deputy chief minister should be made from the Muslim community. The lone AIMIM legislator Akhtarul Iman said that the ruling alliance has a maximum vote share of the minority community (Muslim).

    “When ministers are appointed on the basis of caste, accordingly there should be a Muslim Deputy CM,” he asserted. Former chief minister and RJD national president Lalu Prasad Yadav are likely to attend the oath-taking ceremony of the new ministers. Prasad, who had played a significant role in forging the alliance with JD(U) and other non-BJP parties, will reach Patna on Monday.

    Nitish-Tejashwi Yadav government has set formula for allotting one ministerial berth to a party per every 4 MLAs. As per the formula, the RJD will be the party with the most cabinet berths with 18 ministers expected to be inducted from the party into the new cabinet.

    ALSO READ | CPI-ML to extend outside support to JD(U)- RJD government in Bihar  

    Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) is expected to have 12 ministers in the new cabinet. Congress is expected to get four berths. The CPI-ML has decided not to get any ministerial berth in the cabinet and announced to extend its support to the government from outside.

    However, Congress in charge of Bihar Bhakt Charan Das on Sunday said that the party will get three ministerial berths, with two taking oath on August 16 and one more to be inducted in the next cabinet expansion. CPI, CPM and HAM are likely to get one berth each. HAM led by former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi is pressuring for two berths in the new council of ministers. Besides, one Independent legislator is likely to be inducted into the new cabinet.

    Nitish Kumar had claimed that the ruling alliance has the support of 164 MLAs and an Independent legislator. The strength of the Bihar legislative assembly is 243. Sources said that the new Speaker of the assembly will be from RJD. The names of Awadh Bihari Choudhary and Alok Kumar Mehta are doing the rounds for the Speaker’s post. RJD is also eying the home department, which Nitish has kept with him since he became the chief minister.

    ALSO READ | ‘Nitish wanted to protect nexus between PFI, Bihar officials’: BJP attacks Bihar CM

    The Mahagathbandhan government will go for a floor test on August 24. A special session of the legislative assembly has been convened for two days. A new Speaker has to be elected by the legislators of the ruling alliance. The Mahagathbandhan legislators have also moved a ‘no trust’ motion against incumbent

    Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha is from the BJP quota. Sinha on Sunday said that he would continue to discharge his constitutional duty and would unfurl the tri-colour at Bihar Vidhan Sabha on August 15.

  • NDA surges ahead of Congress-led Grand Alliance in Assam

    By PTI
    GUWAHATI: The ruling BJP-led NDA surged ahead of the Grand Alliance spearheaded by the Congress in Assam, leading in 71 of the 110 seats from where trends were available till 11.25 am on Sunday.

    The Grand Alliance is ahead in 38 places.

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    BJP candidates are leading in 54 seats, while those of its ally AGP in 10 and UPPL in seven.

    The Congress has established leads in 26 places and AIUDF in 10.

    Assam has a 126-member assembly and 64 seats are needed for a simple majority.

  • RJD joins Congress-led Grand Alliance in Assam

    By PTI
    GUWAHATI: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Tuesday said that it has joined the opposition Congress-led ‘Grand Alliance’ in Assam and will contest one seat during the first phase of the assembly election.

    With this, the number of constituents in the Grand Alliance has gone up to eight.

    RJD Assam president Shonarul Shah Mustafa told PTI that the party has formally joined the opposition grouping and it will contest the Tinsukia constituency which will go to polls during the first phase on March 27.

    “Now talks are on between central leaders of the RJD and the Congress to finalise the seat-sharing agreement for the second and third phase of polling,” he said.

    Mustafa said that the party has fielded Hira Devi Choudhury for Tinsukia, which has a large number of Hindi-speaking people.

    State Congress spokesperson Bobbeeta Sharma confirmed that the RJD has joined the Grand Alliance.

    Earlier, the Grand Alliance consisted of the Congress, AIUDF, Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML) and the Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM).

    It was formed to fight the upcoming election for the 126-member assembly against the BJP-led NDA.

    Out of the 47 seats where voting will be held in the first phase, the Congress will contest 43 constituencies.

    The AIUDF, CPI(ML), AGM and the RJD will fight in the four other seats, Sharma said.

    Polling will be held in 47 on March 27 in the first phase, while 39 and 40 constituencies will go to polls on April 1 and April 6 respectively.

  • Alliance partners of Congress in Assam will not get any seat in first phase

    By PTI
    GUWAHATI: The Congress will allot no seats to its six partners of the Grand Alliance in any of the 47 seats that are going to polls in the first phase in Assam, a party source said on Sunday.

    The opposition party and other constituents of the grouping are yet to officially announce their seat-sharing arrangements.

    The Congress on Saturday night issued the first list of 40 candidates for the first phase of polling on March 27, for which the last date of nomination is on Tuesday.

    A Congress source told PTI that the second list will be out late on Sunday night and it will consist of names of candidates for the seven remaining constituencies that are going to polls in the first phase.

    The list will also have names of nominees for the second phase in which polling will be held in 39 constituencies on April 1.

    The third and the last phase of the assembly polls will be held on April 6.

    Since early morning on Sunday, AICC general secretary Jitendra Singh, AICC chief strategist Naresh Arora, state unit president Ripun Bora and other senior leaders have been deliberating on the second list at a luxury resort on the outskirts of Guwahati.

    ALSO READ: Assam Jatiya Parishad announces second list of 50 candidates for Assembly polls

    The party’s Campaign Committee chairman Pradyut Bordoloi, Manifesto Committee chief Gaurav Gogoi, Legislature Party leader Debabrata Saikia and senior MLA Rakibul Hussain also took part in the meeting.

    The first list did not have a candidate for the prestigious Titabor constituency, represented by former three-time Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.

    Though a party spokesperson declined to comment on the probable candidate for Titabar, the source said that DesignBoxed Creatives, a political strategy firm engaged to devise the Congress plan of action for the polls, has suggested Gogoi’s parliamentarian son Gaurav for the constituency.

    “The AICC has also approved Gaurav’s name for Titabar. Now, the party’s state unit has to approve his name,” the source said.

    ALSO READ: AGP releases first list of 8 candidates, denies ticket to party veteran Brindaban Goswami

    The Congress, which was in power for 15 years in Assam since 2001, has formed a ‘Grand Alliance’ with the AIUDF, Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML) and the Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM) to fight the upcoming Assembly election against the BJP-led NDA.

    The 2016 elections in Assam gave a fractured mandate and no party got an absolute majority.

    The Congress had won 26 seats, while the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) bagged 13.

    The BJP became the single largest party with 60 MLAs, while its allies Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the BPF had won 14 and 12 seats respectively.

    The ruling coalition also had the support of an Independent MLA.

  • Congress-led Grand Alliance expanded in Assam with inclusion of BPF, RJD

    By PTI
    GUWAHATI: The six-party opposition Grand Alliance headed by Congress in Assam was expanded on Saturday with the inclusion of Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), currently a part of the BJP-led state government, and the RJD, to further strengthen their position against the saffron party in the three-phase elections in Assam.

    The Congress had earlier formed Grand Alliance with AIUDF, CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML) and Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM) to fight the Assembly polls against the BJP-helmed National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

    On Saturday, the BPF and Lalu Prasad headed RJD, the single largest party in the Bihar assembly and which has five members in Rajya Sabha but none in Lok Sabha, joined the grouping to add to the strength of the anti-BJP grouping.

    The BJP will be going to the Assam polls with allies Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and United Peoples Party Liberal (UPPL).

    BPF announced during the day that they will join the grand alliance to contest the upcoming assembly polls.

    Welcoming the decision, the Congress exuded confidence that the party will come back to power again.

    Likewise, RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who is taking crucial decisions of the party in the absence of Prasad, who is undergoing jail term in connection with multi-crore rupees fodder scam, after meeting Assam Congress chief Ripun Bora and AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal declared that his party will be a part of the grand alliance in Assam.

    “To work for peace, unity and development the Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) has decided to join hands with MAHAJATH in the forthcoming Assam Assembly Election,” BPF chief Hagrama Mohilary tweeted.

    The BPF will no longer maintain any friendly relation or alliance with the ruling BJP, he added.

    Welcoming the decision, Congress campaign committee Chairman Pradyut Bordoloi said, “The Asom Basao Ahok Yatra has had such massive impact across the state that our old friends, the Bodoland Peoples Front, could see which way the wind is blowing.

    “Congress is coming and we are proud to partner with the BPF.”

    The BJP has already said that it will not have any alliance with its existing ally BPF in the assembly polls.

    BPF’s relation with BJP went sour during the latest elections of the Bodoland Territorial Council, where the saffron party dumped its state ally BPF and formed the council government in alliance with UPPL and GSP.

    Welcoming RJD into the opposition fold, Ajmal said “he (Yadav) said he would go and campaign in all the seats where we will take him. RJD will be part of our grand alliance.”

    Asked about the seat sharing and other details between the RJD and other alliance partners, Ajmal told reporters after meeting Yadav that all such points will be discussed and finalised during another round of meeting on Saturday night.

    He further said that the ‘Common Minimum Programme’ (CMP) of the grand alliance is likely to be released on Sunday.

    When contacted, a Congress source told PTI that the top leadership of the grand alliance is likely to address the media on Sunday afternoon.

    On the poll prospects of the opposition alliance, Ajmal said,”BJP is nervous today and there is no Modi wave in the state this time.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have come so many times and said they will come here more.

    “This shows that their position is shaky. They know that they will lose this time and the grand alliance will win and form the government.”

    The Congress, which was in power for 15 years in Assam since 2001, has been making a determined effort to throw the BJP out of power in Assam.

    Of the total 126 seats, elections to 47, mostly in Upper Assam, will be held on March 27, while 39, in Barak Valley and Central Assam will go to polls on April 1 and voting in the remaining 40 seats in Lower Assam will be held on April 6.

    The RJD is eying to make a dent into the Hindi-speaking votes that traditionally have been going to the BJP’s kitty in Assam.

    “There are around five per cent Hindi-speaking people in Assam who have been from Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh.

    “We have a considerable number of such people in 11 seats, but we’ll contest only where chances of winning are high,” Yadav, younger son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, told mediapersons during the day.

    RJD had earlier contested Assam polls alone but without any success.

  • Modi ‘migratory bird’: Grand Alliance hits out at PM ahead of Assam polls

    By PTI
    GUWAHATI: The Congress-led Grand Alliance in Assam on Monday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “migratory bird” who visits the state often but does not solve any problem.

    The comment was made after Modi paid his third visit in a month to the poll-bound state and dedicated to the nation a number of projects in different parts of the state.

    The Congress, which had posed six questions to the prime minister before his arrival, placed them again at a joint press conference with five alliance partners after he left.

    The questions asked were related to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, generation of employment in the state, granting of ST status to six communities, rise in the prices of essential commodities, minimum wage to tea garden workers and the exorbitant rise in fuel price.

    The Congress, which was in power for 15 years in the state since 2001, has formed the ‘Grand Alliance’ with Badruddin Ajmal’s AIUDF, CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML) and Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM), which was launched by a section of intellectuals, to fight the coming Assembly election against BJP.

    Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Ripun Bora said “We asked six questions to Modi and hoped that he will answer at least one of them. Unfortunately he did not do that. He is just a migratory bird and nothing else. Let him come, visit and then go back”.

    Continuing his attack, Bora, also Rajya Sabha MP, said “Modi said he will continue to come to Assam till the model code of conduct for the Assembly election is enforced.

    Why did he not come when the state was suffering from flood? Why did he not come when five youths were gunned down by police during the anti-CAA movement (in December 2019)?” He also questioned Modi’s silence over kidnapping of two oil sector employees by ULFA(I) militants and sought to know what action the government is taking for their safe release.

    All India United Democratic Front(AIDUF) organisational general secretary Aminul Islam said the frequent visits by Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda post the formation of the ‘Grand Alliance’ prove that the BJP is afraid of losing the polls.

    “The BJP-led NDA is frustrated, scared and trying to save its government. They have lied in every front — NRC, Assam Accord, CAA, investments and border sealing. The people now know that it is bluffing,” he added.

    CPI(M) Assam Committee Secretary Deben Bhattacharyya said the BJP government gave jobs to only 80,000 youths in the state against its promise of 25 lakh employment in the last five years.

    AGM working president Manjit Mahanta wondered why Modi and other “big” national leaders are visiting the state repeatedly if BJP is not scared of the ‘Grand Alliance’.

    Modi had since January 23 addressed three public rallies at Sivasagar, Dhekiajuli and Silapathar as part of official functions to roll out various schemes and projects.

    The press conference of the opposition alliance was also addressed by CPI state secretary Munin Mahanta and CPI(ML) central committee member Bibek Das.

    The election to the 126-member Assam Assembly is likely in March-April.

    The 2016 election had given a fractured mandate and no party got an absolute majority in the current assembly.

    BJP is currently the single largest party with 60 MLAs, while its allies Asom Gana Parishad and Bodoland People’s Front now have 13 and 11 lawmakers respectively.

    The ruling coalition also has the support of an independent MLA.

    The opposition Congress has 19 MLAs at present, while AIUDF has 14 members in the House in Assam.

  • Grand Alliance in Bihar forms human chains against new farm laws

    By PTI
    PATNA: Supporters of the opposition Grand Alliance in Bihar on Saturday formed human chains across the state as an expression of solidarity with the farmers who have been agitating in the national capital seeking the repeal of the contentious farm laws.

    Leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav took part in the demonstration in front of the Buddha Smriti Park here, a stone’s throw from the Patna Junction, where he was joined by alliance partners, most notably party emblem waving workers from the Left who have been enthused since the CPI(ML), the CPI and the CPI(M) showed signs of recovery in the recently held assembly polls.

    The opposition leaders stood at their designated spots for close to 30 minutes, beginning half past noon.

    Many of them held hands but many others chose to simply stand with a safe distance from each other in view of the physical distancing norms in force because of COVID-19.

    The RJD leader bristled when asked about Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s remark suggesting that the opposition seemed to have taken a leaf out of his book.

    When approached by journalists with questions about the “manav shrinkhla”, Kumar had replied with a broad grin “we had organised human chains in 2017 in support of prohibition and against dowry and child marriage the following year.

    Last year, a human chain held to spread awareness about climate change in addition to the issues we had previously raised broke all records”.

    “It is nice that others are also drawing inspiration. Everybody has the right to hold such programmes,” he had said with a smirk.

    Yadav responded with distaste “it is a petty remark. Is he the first person to have ever held a human chain? He should instead make his stand clear on the new farm laws”.

    RJD national spokesperson Manoj Jha, who stood nearby, said, “The human chains sponsored by the chief minister depended upon the bureaucracy for its success. Officials concerned were given targets of turnouts to achieve. What is happening here today is spontaneous.”

    Notably, the RJD had taken part in the 2017 human chain while it shared power with Kumar.

    Its jailed supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, who was then out on bail, had famously stood at Gandhi Maidan to demonstrate his support for liquor ban.

    Jha, who is a member of the Rajya Sabha, also described the Centre’s talks with agitating farmers as “a monologue, instead of a dialogue, a reason why Delhi’s borders at Singhu and Ghazipur have been on fire”.

    Prominent among those who took part in the human chain at the state capital were CPI(ML) secretary general Dipankar Bhattacharya and Congress legislature party leader Ajeet Sharma.

    The human chain was also formed in districts.

    In Nawada, local Congress MLA Neetu Singh was among those who participated in the demonstration.

    In Begusarai, Congress, RJD and Left workers stood in front of the district headquarters and other places.

    No untoward incident was reported from anywhere so far though the officials said the human chain was held without permission.

    Leaders of the ruling NDA in the state came out with statements claiming that the human chain was a “flop”.

  • We will boycott Assembly session if it is truncated: Bihar opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav

    Express News Service
    PATNA: Bihar’s leader of Opposition from RJD Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday threatened to lay siege around CM Nitish Kumar and deputy CMs Tar Kishor Prasad and Renu Devi’s residences if the budget session of the state assembly is truncated and does not work to its full lenght.

    Talking to the media on Sunday, Tejashwi Yadav said that the Mahagatvandhan (Grand Alliance) will form a human chain across Bihar on January 30 in protest of the newly introduced farm bills and in solidarity with the farmers protesting against it. The leaders and supporters of RJD, Congress and other allies of Mahagatvandhan will form the human chain showing a collective solidarity to the farmers,

    Tejashwi Yadav said that the speaker has requested that the upcoming budget session of the assembly be reduced due to possible vaccination drive for COVID-19 in March. “I have requested the speaker to hold a meeting with all the parties. Why is the government running away from questions”, he said, adding that how will the peoples’ representatives ask questions if the session does not work to its full length.

    “Now they are trying to tell us that just 243 members of the House cannot assemble because of the pandemic. They are talking about vaccination. Can they give a tentative date of its commencement? Do they have even a faint idea as to how many vials of the shot will be made available to Bihar?” Yadav asked mockingly.

    Underscoring that legislative business had suffered in the state over the past one year because of the pandemic, Yadav said if the upcoming session was shortened “we will boycott it and gherao the residences of the Chief Minister and the deputy CMs”.

    Accusing CM Nitish Kumar of ruining the state, he said that Nitish Kumar has virtually become a bargainer instead of  a leader remaining a leader. “You can see how he treated George Fernandes, Digvijay Singh and RJD in the past. He had managed to come into power through backdoor and now is trying to remain in power”, Tejashwi alleged.

    He said that 50 farmers, who were opposed to the agricultural bills, have lost their lives as martyrs. “But neither the central government nor the Nitish government has anything to help farmers.  Farmers of Bihar are forced to sell paddy at cheap prices.  Paddy is not being procured at MSP.  The government is making the farmers poor”, he said.

    (With PTI inputs)

  • Shah arrives at Nadda’s residence, congratulations for victory in Bihar assembly elections and by-elections

    Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday congratulated BJP President JP Nadda at the residence of BJP President JP Nadda for winning the Bihar Assembly Elections and the grand success achieved in the by-elections in various states. He congratulated the visiting National President JP Nadda at the residence of the BJP in the victory. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nadda, all of us activists are dedicated to the overall development of the country.

    In a very exciting contest in the Bihar Assembly elections, the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) achieved a magical figure of majority by sweeping 125 seats out of 243 seats, while the Grand Alliance had The account came to 110 seats. Even though the NDA has won a majority in the election, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which is leading the opposition ‘Grand Alliance’, has emerged as the single largest party with 75 seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged as the second largest party with 74 seats after counting of votes for nearly 16 hours.