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Elections. in India's 1st Elections website Home » Blog » With PM’s rallies and slanging match,is BJP battle-ready in Bihar? With PM’s rallies and slanging match,is BJP battle-ready in Bihar? By Deepak Parvatiyar October 8, 2015 5.00/5 (100.00%) 2 votes Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, who lived in 6th century BC had warned: “There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.” This is a universal truth. We have parallels in David versus Goliath, or even the Pandavas versus the Kauravas in Mahabharatha. There are other mythological legends too – consider how a child, Krishna, could kill the mighty king Kansa in Mathura! You may also lik...

Elections. in India's 1st Elections website Home » Blog » Battleground Bihar : Key Election Strategies Battleground Bihar : Key Election Strategies By Deepak Parvatiyar October 3, 2015 5.00/5 (100.00%) 1 vote Strategy is made to achieve a long-term goal. Often it is related to planning  of military  actions and operations. After all, winning or losing a war determines the fate of a nation! Yet strategy is important for one’s basic survival The strategy to develop one’s career, business or even country’s overall development – the scope of strategy is overarching.  Elections are no exception but rather require meticulous strategic planning as they are no lesser than wars. So is the case in Bihar elections this time. You may also like to read CM Candidates of Bihar Bihar Election Updates Bihar’s Key Constituencies in Election Fray Obviously for months political parties engaged...

What are the stumbling blocks for BJP ahead of Bihar Assembly Elections 2015? By Deepak Parvatiyar October 1, 2015 5.00/5 (100.00%) 4 votes The Bharatiya Janata Party had done exceedingly well in the state elections in October 2005 as well as in 2010. In October 2005, it had won 55 of the 102 seats that it had contested in alliance with the Janata Dal (United) – a net gain of 18 seats from the previous elections that were heldonly a few months earlier in February. The JD (U) had then won 88 of the 139 seats . In 2010, the BJP-led NDA had further consolidated its position. While the BJP won an impressive 91 of the of the 102 seats it had contested, the JD (U) won 115 of the 141 seats then. The JD (U) withdrew from the NDA in 2013 at its own peril as the BJP triumphed in the 2014 general elections in the state by emerging as the largest party winning 22 Lok Sabha seats (a gain of 10 seats) while its new alliance partners, the Lok Janshakti Party and the Rashtriya L...

Elections. in India's 1st Elections website Home » Blog » Bihar’s Key Constituencies in Election Fray Bihar’s Key Constituencies in Election Fray By Deepak Parvatiyar September 30, 2015 5.00/5 (100.00%) 1 vote It is interesting that none of the leaders who ruled Bihar in the last twenty five years, with the exception of a stop-gap chief minister turned-Janata Dal (United) rebel Jitan Ram Manjhi, are contesting the elections this time. Outgoing chief minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, who is the Grand Alliance’s CM candidate  is a member of state legislative council decided against contesting the assembly seat. You may also like to read ·     Bihar CM Candidates ·     Bihar Election Updates ·     The caste game in Bihar What makes the situation more piquant is that even Sushil Kumar Modi, who was the state’s deputy chief minister of the state till 2013 during the Nitish-led National Democratic Allian...