AA Edit | Patna meet delay to hurt Opposition

If Nitish cannot make a small compromise even on the format of the meeting, neither is the Cong keen to go out of its way to please him

Pavan Varma | Opp. needs a pivot, but Congress a spent force

Nitish Kumar and Sharad Pawar are right when they say that no Opposition front is possible without the Congress

Standing together in solidarity against the perceived intimidation and coercive tactics of Modi govt is reassuring for all political parties

Mr Anand was initially handed out a death sentence by a local court, but it was later commuted to life imprisonment by the high court

CM Nitish stood his ground maintaining that prohibition was not his personal wish but a response to the cries of the women of the state

Mahagathbandhan is an alliance of 7 parties with a strength of 164 in a House of 243 and the Nitish ministry passed the test with 160 votes

Nitish Kumar is the last of the politically active and physically robust survivors of the Mandal versus Kamandal war of the 1990s

It is the BJP’s expansionist tendency that has fed dissatisfaction with the party’s traditional allies

The demand for special category status gained currency after the creation of Jharkhand in 2000

The most significant aspects of this period were the nationwide lockdown