Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday demanded special status for Bihar state so that it can move forward and also appealed to the Centre to conduct a caste-based census across the country.
"I have come here from Bihar's Begusarai. Wherever PM Modi's public rallies are held I go there dressed up like this. I go to those rallies because PM Modi is a messiah for the poor, Dalit, Adivasi, OBC and the entire country. Today, a person from a poor family has become the prime minister
On the second day of the Bihar assembly winter session, Bhartiya Janata Party workers staged a protest outside Vidhan Sabha against the Bihar Government over the use of water cannons on Anganvadi workers and the caste-based census report.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal also issued notice to the complainant and sought his response on a transfer plea moved by Yadav seeking transfer of the trial from Gujarat to a 'neutral place'.
After Union Home Minister Amit Shah alleged that the population of Yadavs and Muslims has been increased in the state caste survey thereby minimizing the rights of the Extremely Backward Classes, Bihar Deputy CM and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav questioned that on what basis the Home Minister wa
Coming down hard on the Bihar government and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday urged the people of the state to vote for the BJP in the 2025 state assembly elections.
Ahead of Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav's birthday, which falls on November 9, the RJD workers on Sunday put up posters calling him 'future CM', outside his residence in Bihar's Patna.
"In the survey, the population of Yadavs and Muslims were increased and the population of Extremely Backward Classes were diminished. The Lalu-Nitish combine has wronged the backward and extemely backward classes," Amit Shah said.
During his extensive criticism of the Congress Party's government in Chhattisgarh, the UP Chief Minister mentioned that while the Congress's ally in Bihar was involved in the fodder scam, the Congress itself was embroiled in a cow dung scam amounting to Rs 1300 crore in Chhattisgarh.
"They (Central government) should do it. The Bihar government has done. They have passed the Women's Reservation Bill, which will be implemented ten or fifteen years later, or maybe not. A caste-based census should be done. This is what the Congress and people of INDIA alliance are saying,"