Bihar Elections 2010

• Nitish, the Politician

  Often called Chanakya for his political astuteness, Engineer-politician Nitish Kumar blended his secularist ideology with pragmatic politics and combined the development plank with innovative social engineering equations in Bihar to bask in glory yet again.Doing an encore after today's landslide victory, the 59-year-old chief minister with his trad...

• Bihar: International media on Nitish victory

  Out in the flat, dusty plains of eastern India, Nitish Kumar stood before several thousand farmers at a recent campaign rally and described his turnaround of India's poorest and once most ungovernable state, Bihar. Law and order had been restored. Roads and bridges had been built. More women were holding elective office and fewer and fewer girls we...

• Chidambaram: People voted for development in Bihar

  Congratulating the JD(U)-BJP alliance for its good showing in Bihar elections, Union Home Minister P C Chidambaram today said the development argument has prevailed in the state."If development argument has prevailed in Bihar, we should all be happy. We congratulate Nitish Kumar as well as the two parties - the JD(U) and BJP - for their extremely g...

• NDTV Forecast: Nitish Kumar to be the next Chief Minister of Bihar

  Big smiles in the JD(U)-BJP camp and early credit from the Congress tell the story. Nitish Kumar will be the Chief Minister of Bihar again, and with a huge majority.  Trends are now available for most of the 243 seats in the Bihar Assembly and show the JD(U)-BJP combine surging ahead. The JD(U) has added about 10 extra seats to its kitty, but ...

• Bihar early trends: Nitish ahead, worries for Lalu

  Counting has begun to determine who shall be at the helm of Bihar for the next five years. Will, as projected, Nitish Kumar's JD(U) and its allies sweep the Assembly polls or will Lalu Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan manage a rearguard victory?Early leads show the JD(U)-BJP combine holding on to their numbers and gaining. The JD(U) is ahead, but is...

• Bihar election: Hall of shame

  As all eyes are set on Bihar to see the outcome of the Assembly polls in the state, it is not very surprising to find that a large number of candidates have criminal records. An NGO's survey clearly refutes the claims made by the 'clean' politicians.''I can say this with pride that the RJD has not given tickets to people with criminal background," ...

• Counting begins in Bihar elections; will Nitish win again?

  Counting has begun to determine who shall be at the helm of Bihar for the next five years. Will, as projected, Nitish Kumar's JD(U) and its allies sweep the Assembly polls or will Lalu Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan manage a rearguard victory?Early leads show the JD(U)-BJP combine holding on to their numbers and gaining. The JD(U) is ahead, but is bein...

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  We will come to power in Bihar: Paswan

  Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday expressed confidence that the party's alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) would win the Bihar elections with a two-third majority. "Our government will be formed on the 24th, with a two-third majority," Paswan told reporters outside Parliament. The LJP chief dismissed as fake the ...

• Bihar polls: Counting on Wednesday; Nitish confident of win

  Political parties waited with bated breath for the outcome of the Bihar Assembly elections with counting of votes for all the 243 constituencies to be taken up on Wednesday.The counting will begin at 8 am amid tight security arrangements and the first results of the six-phase polls are expected around noon. The Election Commission's official websit...