Responding to RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's demand for a nationwide caste census and inclusion of 65 per cent quota increase in Bihar in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Kumar Jha said, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ensured that caste census took place in Bihar.
Newly-appointed Bihar BJP chief Dilip Jaiswal has said that he has started work to fulfil the new responsibility given to him and the ruling NDA alliance in the state will start preparing under leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the assembly pol
The newly appointed Bihar BJP President, Dilip Jaiswal on Friday said that the next assembly elections in Bihar will be fought under the leadership of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the NDA will form the government.
The INDIA bloc workers are protesting in Bihar, alleging the failure of law and order in the state. This protest comes after the murder of Jitan Sahni, father of Mukesh Sahni, founder of the Vikasheel Insaan Party in Bihar.
Following the protest of the INDIA bloc against the law and order situation in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday asked the RJD people to look into themselves, adding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar do not provide any "protection to criminals."
He further challenged JD(U) which has been ruling the state of Bihar for the past 17 years to release details of the officials involved in sanctioning and laying the foundation stone of bridges that have collapsed to expose the corrupt.
The BJP leader also took aim at another INDIA bloc leader, the former Bihar deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav. "In Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav is mad about why he was ousted from power. The leaders of the INDIA bloc cannot survive without power." Sinha said.
With barely a day left for vote counting for Lok Sabha polls, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Samrat Choudhary dismissed the INDIA bloc's claim of getting "295-plus seats," stating that if the Opposition is so confident of victory, they should directly go
Recounting the attack on him by the "RJD workers", on the day of seventh phase of Lok Sabha polling in Bihar, BJP leader Ram Kripal Yadav said that three to four shots were fired at his covoy on the Patna-Jehanabad road.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday expressed confidence in BJP's victory in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections and claimed that the government has already been formed in the first five phases of elections.