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NEW DELHI: Responding to Congress‘ Facebook post pointing to the difference between 7.42 crore voters cited in EC’s Oct 6 press note announcing Bihar polls dated and the 7.45 crore electorate cited in its post-poll press statement dated Oct 11, the Election Commission on Saturday clarified that the gap was on account of the nearly…
Vanathi Srinivasan. File | Photo Credit: PTI BJP Mahila Morcha national president Vanathi Srinivasan on Friday (November 14, 2025) said the results of the Bihar Assembly election has conveyed an important message to poll-bound Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, West Bengal, and Assam, which will face elections next year. Speaking to reporters at Kamalalayam, the party’s…
NEW DELHI: Janshakti Janta Dal Chief Tej Pratap Yadav on Saturday said that his security has been strengthened following a threat to his life.“My security has been increased because there is a threat to my life,” Yadav told reporters in Patna. He added in Hindi, “Humare upar khatra hain naa isiliye badhayi hai,” when asked…
Election official suspended, FIR registered after VVPAT slips found on roadside in Samastipur An assistant returning officer was suspended on Saturday (November 8, 2025) and a case registered against him after a large number of VVPAT slips were found on the roadside in Bihar’s Samastipur district, said a statement. The VVPAT slips were found scattered…
Security personnel stand guard outside a strong room in Patna where Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are kept after the first phase of Bihar Assembly elections. | Photo Credit: ANI The Election Commission of India (ECI) has said that no re-poll has been recommended in any of the 45,341 polling stations that went to polls in…
Security personnel stand guard outside a strong room in Patna where Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are kept after the first phase of Bihar Assembly elections. | Photo Credit: ANI The Election Commission of India (ECI) has said that no re-poll has been recommended in any of the 45,341 polling stations that went to polls in…
The Data Point published on Wednesday discussed in detail the spoiler effect created by Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in the 2020 Bihar Assembly election and examined the possibility of it influencing the upcoming 2025 polls as well. This effect was one of the key reasons the 2020 election turned out to be…
NEW DELHI: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Thursday, as Phase 1 polling took place in Bihar, alleged that police personnel and BJP workers were intimidating voters and assaulting party members at multiple polling booths.In a post on X sharing visuals, the party claimed that police officials had entered homes and were threatening residents in…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday dropped the ‘H-bomb’, alleging a large-scale voter fraud during the Haryana elections. The leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha alleged that 1 in 8 voters in Haryana are fake, pointing to unexplained differences between postal and booth votes.The presser was held at Congress headquarters in…
The voting for the 243-seat Bihar assembly will be held in two phases on November 6 and 11. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by grim statistics, especially when it comes to Bihar. It’s at the bottom of most development indicators when compared with other states. But what if we look at the data not just…
