Bihar Election 2025 News

The decision was part of the Bihar State School Teacher Appointment, Transfer, Disciplinary Action and Service Condition (Amendment) Rules, 2025, which was among the 36 proposals approved in Tuesday's Cabinet meeting. 

During his campaign speech, Tej Pratap made several promises to the local people. Speaking directly to voters, he called himself 'the real servant of the people and declared that he no longer needs the shelter of any party.

In the 2020 Assembly elections, VIP contested under the NDA banner and managed to secure four seats, but the relationship soured soon after, with Sahani eventually drifting away from the BJP-led alliance.

With Bihar assembly elections nearing its date, political parties have intensified their talks to seal the seat-sharing deal. 

JMM is the ruling party in neighbouring state Jharkhand where its allies are Congress, Left and RJD. In the 2024 Jharkhand assembly polls, the JMM had given six seats and a ministerial post to the RJD in Jharkhand. 

Tejashwi Yadav also backed Rahul Gandhi’s recent allegations of electoral manipulation in other states, citing instances where dozens of voters were registered at a single BJP worker’s address.

The Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 are only a few months away and the opposition Mahagathbandhan has already intensified efforts not only to put up a united fight but also to work on smart strategies to defeat the BJP-led NDA. 

According to a press release by the Election Commission of India (ECI), accounting for the deceased, permanently shifted, and people enrolled in more than one place, the EF collection phase of the SIR has covered 90.84 per cent of the nearly 7.9 crore strong electorate in Bihar. Only 9.16 per cent of electors remain to submit their filled EFs before the July 25 deadline.

A delegation of the TDP leaders led by its State president Palla Srinivasa Rao met the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Dr. Vivek Joshi in New Delhi and shared their concerns related to the SIR. 

For the BJP, West Bengal is a critical state in its quest for national political dominance. Party leaders acknowledge this, also highlighting the state's symbolic importance as the birthplace of the Jana Sangh founder, Syama Prasad Mookerjee.

Amid the SIR by the ECI, a strange case has come to light from the state where a woman’s voter ID card has gone viral. It's not due to her identity details, but because of the photograph it carries as it features CM Nitish Kumar's pic.

Congress leader and National Students' Union of India (NSUI) national incharge Kanhaiya Kumar, along with Pappu Yadav, who is an independent MP from Purnia Lok Sabha constituency, on Wednesday were snubbed by security from boarding a van during the Mahagathbandhan protest against electoral roll revision in poll-bound Bihar.

The NDA, comprising JD(U), BJP, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) (LJP(RV)), and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM), enters the fray with a mixed record. Nitish Kumar, a veteran of Bihar politics, has steered the state through development milestones like improved roads and electricity but faces criticism for his frequent alliance switches.

Farooq Abdullah strongly criticized the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to conduct the SIR in Bihar, describing it as a direct threat to the constitutional right to vote.

Bihar elections are expected to be held later this year in October or November; however, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has not announced an official date.

Prashant Kishor, whose party Jan Suraaj will also be contesting the Bihar assembly elections, shared his thought on the division of Muslim votes and impact of Asaduddin Owaisi's  All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on the poll results.