JD(U)

Mahagathbandhan’s caste math errors: All but 2 of RJD’s EBC candidates lost, Congress dependence on upper castes backfired

November 17, 2025 10:23 am

While the RJD’s EBC candidates performed the worst, with the highest average margin of defeat at 27,506 votes, none of the Congress’s upper-caste nominees won.

‘He is Bihar’s guardian… can do no wrong’: 20 years later, why Nitish still NDA’s best bet

November 05, 2025 10:01 am

Bihar CM’s popularity sustaining despite health concerns and his U-turns, could JD(U) close the gap with BJP, unlike 2020?

No Muslim faces in JD(U)’s first list; focus on Kurmi, Kushwaha, EBC candidates

October 16, 2025 1:24 pm

JD(U) candidate list, Bihar Assembly election 2025: Of 57 nominees for Bihar polls, 23 MLAs retained, including several ministers; Kurmis, Kushwahas, EBCs make up about half the list

Nitish and Lalu houses have sleepless night as tempers boil over on election tickets

October 15, 2025 4:38 am

JD(U) chief angry over seat concessions made to Chirag Paswan’s party in NDA; livid Tejashwi questions Lalu distributing tickets on own

How Nitish Kumar, facing his toughest poll battle yet, has shaped Bihar politics since 2005

October 07, 2025 4:08 pm

Nitish's initial stints as CM focused on improving law and order and infra in Bihar, with NDA camp fuelling a perception that his governance managed to “reverse” the RJD regime’s “jungle raj”

'JD(U) no longer the party it used to be': Meet MLA Sanjeev Kumar, a constant thorn in party's side, now in RJD

October 05, 2025 2:16 pm

The doctor-turned-politican, who made his electoral debut in the 2020 polls, is the son of four-time MLA and former state minister Ramanand Prasad Singh. Since last year, he has had several run-ins with the JD(U) and recently criticised SIR.

Kosi may be Bihar’s ‘sorrow’, but why it is a lifeline for JD(U), allies in polls

September 29, 2025 3:29 pm

The EBC factor in the river belt’s 12 constituencies helped the ruling coalition stave off a stiff challenge from the Opposition in 2020, something it will be looking to emulate this time around too.

Vandita Mishra writes: Mayawati and Nitish, her nephew and his son

September 08, 2025 7:52 pm

In the retreat of the two leaders, an undermining of their powerful legacies of an alternative politics

In the dock for ‘assault’ on AIIMS Patna doctors, who is JD(U) leader Chetan Anand

August 02, 2025 5:09 pm

AIIMS Patna's resident doctors have gone on a strike against the "misconduct and brash behaviour" of Sheohar MLA, who is the son of strongman Anand Mohan.

JD(U) MP who flayed EC’s ‘Tughlaqi farmaan’, got notice, won his seat hailing Modi leadership

July 25, 2025 9:16 am

Giridhari Yadav is a low-key, four-time MP from Banka, who has also won several Assembly polls from the area

After JD(U)-RJD patch-up, Nitish pays courtesy visit to ex-foe Lalu Prasad

August 17, 2022 10:27 pm

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday visited RJD national president Lalu Prasad, who returned to Patna from New Delhi after undergoing treatment due to a fall.

Nitish Kumar parts ways with BJP again, returns to Mahagathbandhan

August 09, 2022 10:48 pm

Soon after resigning as Bihar CM, Nitish Kumar met Governor Phagu Chauhan and staked claim to form a new government with the JD(U)-RJD led ‘Mahagathbandhan’. The grand alliance will take oath at 2 pm on Wednesday.

With NDA leading in Bihar, BJP supporters start celebrations

November 10, 2020 7:42 pm

With the trends suggesting that the NDA alliance is on course to form the government in Bihar, BJP workers have started celebrating at party head office in Delhi on Tuesday.

Rajya Sabha nominations 2016: Faces to look out for

May 30, 2016 6:19 pm

Parties like BJP, Congress, JD(U), RJD among other have revealed some of the names as their nomination for Rajya Sabha in 2016. Here are a few:

UNBOXING with Prashant Kishor | How to plan, execute and win an election

June 22, 2020 6:11 pm

Poll strategist and National Vice President of JD(U) Prashant Kishor talks about what it takes to plan, execute and win an election in this month's Unboxing.

Sharad Yadav To Visit Bihar Today

June 22, 2020 6:56 pm

Nitish Abandons Lalu: What Transpired In These 20 Months Of The Failed Alliance

June 22, 2020 6:57 pm

JD(U) MLA Threatens Rivals, Says Will ‘Slash Tongues’

March 08, 2016 10:50 am

Opposition parties back privilege motion against Union HRD Minister Irani

March 01, 2016 7:18 am

New Delhi/Patna, March 01 (ANI): Opposition leaders on Tuesday backed the step to move a privilege motion against Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani in the Lok Sabha (LS). Congress leaders K C Venugopal and Ranjeet Ranjan today gave the privilege motion against Irani, citing her arrogance and blatant lies as the reason for doing so.The privilege motion against Irani is being moved with regard to the discussion related to the suicide of PhD scholar Rohith Vemula in August last year.

Opposition slams Modi's statements on welfare of farmers

February 28, 2016 4:12 pm

New Delhi/Bhopal, Feb 28 (ANI): Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Kisaan rally’ speech, Congress leader Pramod Tiwari on Sunday said the Prime Minister is contradicting his statements. Tiwari said that Modi needed to decide what exactly he is and what he wants. The Congress leader stoically pointed out that the PM had said to farmers that they will be taken care of but his own party was enemy of the farmers as last year when they were taking all the farmers land from them without their consent. He further said that the Prime Minister had promised that 50% bonus would be given to farmers, but they have not yet received it. Janata Dal (United) leader Sharad Yadav also echoed similar sentiments, saying that the Prime Minister was repeating the same statements he made in the year 2014. He added that there was a whole lot of difference between doing and saying.

Politicians react over crisis in Arunachal Pradesh

January 25, 2016 11:50 am

Delhi, Jan 25 (ANI): Janata Dal (United) JD(U) leader KC Tyagi on Monday held Bharatiya Janata Party responsible for political crisis in Arunachal Pradesh. He said the move is against the spirit of co-operative federalism. Attacking the BJP, Congress leader PL Punia said recommendation of the President rule in Arunachal pradesh is the "murder of democracy". BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi countered the statements and said the Centre has taken this step as the state is in a "constitutional trouble".

Sarfaraz Alam should be thrown in jail: Tej Pratap Yadav

January 22, 2016 8:24 am

Patna, Jan 22 (ANI): Commenting on the molestation case against Janata Dal-United (JDU) MLA Sarfaraz Alam, Bihar's Health Minister Tej Pratap Yadav on Friday said he should be thrown in jail. An FIR was registered against Alam for misbehaving with a woman passenger on the Guwahati-Rajdhani Express on Sunday night.The case was filed at GRP police station in Patna, and Alam has been booked under sections 341, 323, 290, 504 and 354A of the IPC.

Kejriwal politicizing soldiers' sacrifices: BJP

January 15, 2016 7:09 am

New Delhi, Jan 15 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nalin Kohli questioned the integrity of Aam Admi Party (AAP) supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on his statement promising rupees one crore to the Pathankot attack martyr’s family provided they came to power in Punjab. He accused the AAP of reducing the supreme sacrifice of the Army men to ‘votes and politics’. Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi on the other hand extended support towards Kejriwal and said that he did nothing wrong by raising such a statement. He said it was common during the elections for politicians to voice such sentiments.

People naming me should present facts: Gulam Rasool

January 12, 2016 7:35 am

New Delhi, Jan 12 (ANI): Janata Dal (United) leader Gulam Rasool Balyawi on Tuesday said that he was being falsely accused and his name was being dragged into the Malda incident and such an act was condemnable. He stressed that since elections were coming up in Bengal, the issue is being brought to the forefront. He added that the people accusing him should come up with facts.