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पटना में तीनों प्रमुख पार्टियों- राष्ट्रीय जनता दल, भाजपा और जदयू के कार्यालय एक ही सड़क पर थोड़ी-थोड़ी दूरी पर स्थित हैं. शुक्रवार दोपहर भाजपा और जदयू के कार्यकर्ता जश्न मनाते हुए एक कार्यालय से दूसरे कार्यालय के बीच आते-जाते दिखाई दे रहे थे. इसी दौरान मिले बीजेपी कार्यकर्ता  संजय…

This week on TV Newsance, we break down the Delhi bomb blast tragedy that claimed 13 lives and injured dozens near the Red Fort, one of the busiest, most crowded pockets of Old Delhi. Newslaundry reporters hit the ground an hour later to talk to eyewitnesses and assess the situation…

The trends have solidified and they’ve blown past what almost every exit pollster dared to predict in Bihar. The NDA is cruising to an easy majority, tracking 201 seats at the time of writing this report. The Mahagathbandhan is marooned at 36. Exit polls broadly called an NDA win, but…

Bihar is barrelling toward one of its most emphatic mandates in years. The NDA has opened up an unassailable lead, ahead on 205 of 243 seats, while the Mahagathbandhan is left clinging to just 31, with independents and smaller outfits leading on seven.

Bihar’s romance with strongman politics took shape in the post-Mandal 1990s, when hardened caste loyalties and weakened state institutions created space for bahubalis to rise as parallel centres of power. They stepped into the vacuum, becoming both feared and admired, a dynamic reflected in their electoral successes.

The NDA’s strategy of pairing an influential OBC leader with a prominent upper-caste face appears to have paid off in Bihar. As counting day unfolds, both of the state’s deputy chief ministers, Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, seem to have secured decisive wins.

In this special NL Hafta Live episode, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan and Raman Kirpal were joined by The Hindu’s Sobhana K Nair and senior journalist Neerja Chowdhury to decode the Bihar poll results.