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36 new faces join PM Modi led Union cabinet, 7 MoS elevated to cabinet rank – ET Government

Forty-three new Union ministers were inducted into the NDA 2.0 government on Wednesday led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Union’s first cabinet reshuffle in the Modi government’s second term is politically significant with elections in five states slated for early next year. While 36 new faces have joined the Union Cabinet, seven Ministers of State (MoS) have been promoted to Cabinet…

The BJP’s Central Election Committee (CEC), which decides who gets to fight the polls and from which constituency, concluded its meeting late on Sunday after finalising names for almost all candidates for the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections on the seats over which ally JD-U has not staked its claim.

The list, which is said to have over 50 names, is expected to be announced on Monday.

The CEC meeting, which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party President J.P. Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, among others, also deliberated upon names and weighed in strengths and weaknesses of probables list sent by the state unit for the second phase.

No rift in NDA in Bihar, Congress-RJD spreading rumours, says Nityanand Rai

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Union minister Nityanand Rai on Sunday asserted that there was no rift within the NDA in Bihar and charged the RJD-Congress combine with spreading rumours regarding it.

The former Bihar BJP chief made the remarks, while addressing party workers in Purnea district through video conference, in an oblique reference to speculations which…

BJP rules out alliance with JD-U

New Delhi, June 2 : The BJP on Tuesday ruled out any possibility of an alliance with the Janata Dal-United in Bihar and said the “door is shut” for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

“Any alliance with Nitish Kumar is totally ruled out. The door is shut with a capital lock,” Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told a press conference here.

He said the merger of the Janata parivar…

Your Handy-Dandy Guide to the Bihar Assembly Elections

Bihar will see Assembly elections before the end of November this year. But the games will begin long before that. Who are the key players? What are the cool moves? Our writer digs through perception and realpolitik to bring you this primer to the upcoming tournament.

BJP afraid of Janata Parivar merger: Nitish Kumar

Patna, April 16 : Upbeat over the merger of six parties of the Janata Parivar, including Bihar’s ruling JD-U and its ally RJD, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Thursday that the BJP was afraid and worried of the merger.

“The BJP was afraid and worried at the merger of six parties,” Nitish Kumar told reporters here after he returned from Delhi.

Nitish Kumar said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…

JD-U gives nod for merger with Janata Parivar

Patna April 9 :After Lalu Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) of Bihar has affirmed its approval for the merger of six parties of the erstwhile Janata Parivar.

“The party has declared its support for merger and authorised Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and JD-U president Sharad Yadav to finalise the process of the merger,” Bihar Water Resources Minister Vijay…

JD(U) targets PM over remarks by BJP, VHP leaders

New Delhi: JD-U today targetted Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rajya Sabha over controversial remarks by some leaders of BJP and VHP questioning whether he is “complicit” in all this or his writ does not run.

Referring to recent controversial remarks of Subramanian Swamy, Sadhvi Prachi, Praveen Togadia and some others, JD-U member Pawan Varma asked the BJP to stop making a distinction…