Nitish Kumar Women Voters

Lalu Yadav did nothing for the women of Bihar except installing his wife as chief minister when he himself was jailed for corruption, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Friday, asking voters to not "get misled" by people who "ignored" women and backward classes during their time in government.

In the '90s, when every political pundit predicted a political defeat of Lalu Yadav, his claim was "my Djinn will come out". And he did prove his critics wrong at election time. What he called his "Djinn" were voters of backwards classes, who formed the core support base of his party. For Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, it is women, who, in some const...

The Bihar cabinet today cleared 35 per cent reservation in all the government jobs for women, an election promise Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had made a few months ago.

Lalu Yadav did nothing for the women of Bihar except installing his wife as chief minister when he himself was jailed for corruption, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Friday, asking voters to not "get misled" by people who "ignored" women and backward classes during their time in government.

In the '90s, when every political pundit predicted a political defeat of Lalu Yadav, his claim was "my Djinn will come out". And he did prove his critics wrong at election time. What he called his "Djinn" were voters of backwards classes, who formed the core support base of his party. For Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, it is women, who, in some const...

The Bihar cabinet today cleared 35 per cent reservation in all the government jobs for women, an election promise Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had made a few months ago.