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‘Gold medal for wrestler who lost the bout’: Shiv Sena mouthpiece slams Nitish Kumar, forgets about how Uddhav Thackeray became CM

OpIndia Staff - 12 November, 2020

In a bitterly contested Bihar election 2020, NDA won 125 seats, only 3 seats above the majority mark of 122 while Mahagathbandhan of RJD, Congress etc won 110 seats

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After Shiv Sena lost deposits on all the seats it fought in Bihar, party mouthpiece Saamana says credit must be given to it if...

OpIndia Staff - 11 November, 2020

Shiv Sena said that due to the split in NDA in Maharashtra, Nitish Kumar will become CM despite JD(U) winning lesser seats then BJP

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Chirag Paswan and Asaduddin Owaisi are being accused of being vote-katwas and b-team of BJP. But are they?

Editorial Desk - 11 November, 2020

Vote-katwa or vote-cutter is a very well-known term in Bihar politics and outside Bihar too. It basically refers to candidates who eats into the assumed vote bank or support base of another candidate, thus weakening him or her.

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NDA wins Bihar Assembly elections, Nitish to become CM for the fourth successive term

OpIndia Staff - 11 November, 2020

With 125 seats, NDA gets majority in Bihar elections. Nitish to continue as CM in his fourth successive term.

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Live updates: NDA crosses the majority mark as counting of votes continues late into the night

OpIndia Staff - 11 November, 2020

Live updates of counting day for 243-seat Bihar Assembly elections and bypolls across 11 states for 58 seats.

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Bihar elections: Rajdeep Sardesai’s flip-flop on caste politics and polarisation as trends show BJP in lead

Dibakar Dutta - 10 November, 2020

Rajdeep Sardesai, who was earlier seen crediting the people of Bihar for reposing their faith in the economic concerns raised by Tejashwi Yadav, soon changed tunes and claimed that NDA's leads are due to 'polarisation'.

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Was Nitish Kumar ‘calling out’ Yogi Adityanath for his comments on ’throwing out infiltrators? Not quite: Read details

OpIndia Staff - 5 November, 2020

News agencies misunderstood the context of Nitish Kumar's statement and alleged it was against Yogi Adityanath

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Bihar Assembly elections: Onions pelted at Nitish Kumar’s poll rally at Madhubani’s Harlakhi

OpIndia Staff - 3 November, 2020

The man who had reportedly hurled onions at Kumar kept shouting that though alcohol is prohibited in the state, it is freely being sold and available everywhere.

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