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Oct 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sanjay N. Parate |Abhay Kumar |Sumanta Banerjee |Brett Wilkins
This time again the farmers of Haryana and Punjab are worried and distressed. The central government has announced the minimum support price for Rabi crops, with the claim that the declared price is more than one and a half times the cost. But it is silent on the question whether this support price is based on C-2 cost or A-2+FL cost.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Abhay Kumar |Satya Sagar |Seroja Manoj
Located within walking distance from the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna is the building of the Primary Teachers’ Association. Last Sunday (October 20), the building, situated on Exhibition Road, hosted the second Bihar state conference of Jan Lekhak Sangh, a Bahujan literary forum established in 2016. Upon entering the aging building, I encountered an elderly man, brimming with the energy of youth.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Abhay Kumar
Patna: Come this Gandhi Jayanti, the people of Bihar will see their political palette getting crowded by one more shade. Touted as an alternative to the tried-and-tested parties, the new political outfit, Jan Suraaj, is the brainchild of poll strategist-turned politician Prashant Kishor. Jan Suraaj, meaning 'people's governance', is being launched as a platform that abhors caste, corruption and communalism.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Abhay Kumar
The decision of Arvind Kejriwal to resign as Delhi chief minister and have a new CM is fraught with risk. Such is the lust for power, and given the grave complex political situation in almost every state, one can draw a lesson or two from the other two chief ministers who did the same. In 2014, Nitish Kumar resigned as Bihar chief minister following the poll debacle in the Lok Sabha elections that year and anointed Jitan Ram Manjhi as his successor.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Abhay Kumar
Patna: The collapse of a bridge or an under-construction bridge in Bihar has always made headlines, thereby bringing a bad name to the state. However, of late, what has raised many an eyebrow is the collapse of six bridges within a fortnight in Bihar, and that too when the monsoon season has just begun.
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May 31, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Abhay Kumar
Patna: As around 1.8 crore lakh voters queue up to exercise their franchise in the eight parliamentary constituencies in Bihar during the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Saturday, one thing is certain: this poll will go down in the annals of history as the one which was bereft of emotive issues. Instead, the focus during the canvassing was on the 5 Ms: Machli (fish), Muslims, Mangalsutra, Mujra and Modi.
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May 27, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Abhay Kumar
Patna: With the completion of six phases of elections in 32 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, all eyes will now be on Pataliputra, the key constituency from where former Union minister and senior BJP leader Ram Kripal Yadav has locked horns with RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s eldest daughter Misa Bharti for the third consecutive time. In the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Ram Kripal, a former protégé of Lalu, defeated Misa twice by a slender margin.
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May 27, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Abhay Kumar
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Monday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently cooked up the ‘not biological’ story to evade interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) when the new government would be formed in New Delhi on June 4th. “When the ED officials probe Modi about the undue favour to industrialists, he will say: I am not biological....Parmatma ne bheja hai mujhe yeh karne ko (God has sent me to do all this),” said Rahul, mocking the prime minister.
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May 19, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Abhay Kumar
Patna: As polling begins on Monday for the fifth phase of elections to five parliamentary constituencies in Bihar, all eyes will be on Hajipur and Saran. The son of veteran socialist and former Union Minister late Ram Vilas Paswan, Chirag Paswan, is in the fray from Hajipur. In the adjoining Saran, Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi’s younger daughter Rohini Acharya is making her poll debut.
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May 17, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Abhay Kumar
Patna: Three days ahead of polling in Bihar’s Saran constituency, a writ petition has been filed in the Patna High Court challenging the citizenship of Lalu Prasad’s younger daughter and RJD candidate Rohini Acharya. The Singapore-based daughter of the Lalu-Rabri couple is contesting her maiden Lok Sabha election from Saran against senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
