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Bihar elections 2025 results: Janata Dal (United) (JD-U) supporters hold placards of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as they celebrate NDA's lead in the vote counting of the Bihar Assembly election 2025 at the party office, in Patna on Friday.

Bihar election 2025 result explained: What worked for Nitish Kumar and NDA; what didn't for Tejashwi and Mahagathbandhan

November 16, 2025 12:25 pm

Bihar election 2025 results explained: Nitish Kumar was fighting anti-incumbency after over 20 years in power. And yet, the people of Bihar have handed him the mandate, with faith in his ability to deliver on governance, the attraction of key pre-poll schemes, and other factors.

Jitan Ram Manjhi

Bihar's Chief Ministers | From Nitish’s proxy to key player – the many faces of Jitan Ram Manjhi

November 13, 2025 4:54 pm

Bihar politics, Jitan Manjhi political journey: In May 2014, after his party’s poor performance in the Lok Sabha and assembly bypolls, Nitish Kumar made a risky gambit — he named his close aide Jitan Ram Manjhi as his successor. The move catapulted Manjhi, a little-known leader until then, into the national political spotlight.

Bihar election results: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar addresses a crowd on the 66th Indepndence Day at Gandhi Maidan in Patna in 2012.

Bihar’s Chief Ministers | Nitish Kumar: Journey from early poll losses to becoming longest-serving CM

November 14, 2025 12:36 pm

Bihar election results: Nitish emerged as Lalu’s fiercest rival in the 2005 Legislative Assembly elections through a winning alliance with the BJP. This partnership would go on to reshape Bihar’s politics and social dynamics for decades.

Rabri Devi alongside her husband and RJD chief Lalu Prasad in 2015.

Bihar Chief Ministers | From homemaker to three-time chief minister – the rise of Rabri Devi

November 11, 2025 7:14 pm

On July 25, 1997, facing imminent arrest in the fodder scam, Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav announced that his wife Rabri Devi would be the next chief minister. For Rabri, it was a tectonic shift.

Lalu Yadav: Arc bent from social justice to chequered legacy

Bihar Chief Ministers | Lalu Yadav: Arc bent from social justice to chequered legacy

November 10, 2025 8:12 pm

Lalu brought about a decisive shift of political power in Bihar. But the high rate of crimes and lagging growth under him shadow his legacy.

bhagwat jha azad

Bihar Chief Ministers | Bhagwat Jha Azad: Brief stint in CM's chair undone by dissidents

November 08, 2025 5:04 pm

With the Assembly elections underway in the state, this is the eighteenth part of a new series on the chief ministers of Bihar, from Shri Krishna Sinha to Nitish Kumar

Bindeshwari Dubey

Bihar Chief Ministers | Bindeshwari Dubey: Trade union leader who became CM in turbulent years

November 08, 2025 4:56 pm

With the Assembly elections underway in the state, this is the seventeenth part of a new series on the chief ministers of Bihar, from Shri Krishna Sinha to Nitish Kumar

chandrashekhar singh

Bihar Chief Ministers | Chandrashekhar Singh: Returned Congress to govt, sidelined by leadership

November 06, 2025 7:16 pm

With elections in Bihar, the 16th edition of our series on the state's chief ministers looks at Chandrashekhar Singh, who was a seasoned figure in Bihar’s turbulent landscape.

Ram Sundar Das outside the old Parliament building in 2013.

Bihar Chief Ministers | Ram Sundar Das, moderate figure brought on amid OBC quota backlash

November 06, 2025 7:17 pm

Ram Sundar Das, the second Dalit Chief Minister of Bihar, is remembered as a veteran socialist leader who navigated turbulent caste politics during a fleeting era of non-Congress rule.

jagannath mishra

Bihar Chief Ministers | Jagannath Mishra: With him, Congress departed from Bihar

November 06, 2025 2:24 pm

In the lead up to the Assembly elections in the state, this is the fourteenth part of a new series on the chief ministers of Bihar, from Shri Krishna Sinha to Nitish Kumar

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