Jharkhand’s ruling JMM announced that it would not contest the assembly elections in neighbouring Bihar, claiming that the decision was taken in the wake of a “political conspiracy” by its allies RJD and Congress, which deprived it of seats as part of the Mahagathbandhan.
Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Wednesday donned the political strategist’s hat to predict a certain defeat for the ruling NDA in Bihar, citing the inability of the BJP-led coalition to finalise seats and candidates.
RJD president Lalu Prasad gave away party tickets to candidates favoured by him, unfazed by inability of the INDIA bloc, helmed in Bihar by the Rashtriya Janata Dal, to formally announce a plan for seat-sharing.
The ruling NDA on Sunday announced its seat share deal with BJP and JD(U) bagging 101 seats each, while union minister Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) will contest 29 seats in the elections to the 243-member Assembly. Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and former union minister Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) will contest six seats each.
In a major announcement ahead of the assembly elections, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Thursday said that if the RJD-led Opposition INDIA bloc came to power in Bihar, it would bring an Act to ensure that every family in the state has at least one member with a government job.
A former vice chancellor to retired bureaucrats, lawyers, doctors, actors, social activists and local public representatives are among the fresh faces who feature in the first list of Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) as the political organisation of poll strategist Prashant Kishor (PK) makes its electoral debut in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections.
One point two hundred thousand Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) are to be deployed in Bihar to make the upcoming Assembly elections free, fair, and peaceful in all 243 constituencies of the state.
The upcoming assembly elections in Bihar have an estimated first-time voter population of more than 5,700 per constituency an outcome that is likely to be decisive considering the narrowing victory margins being experienced in recent surveys.
The Election Commission of India on Monday announced the schedule for the general elections to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar. The polling will be held in two phases — on November 6 and November 11, 2025, while the counting of votes will take place on November 14, 2025.
The BJP opted for tried and tested poll managers, Dharmendra Pradhan and Bhupender Yadav — key OBC faces — as election in-charges for Bihar and West Bengal, respectively.
