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Bihar Assembly polls: RJD resolves to project Tejashwi as its CM candidate

The resolution was passed by the RJDs national council meeting, which was for the first time held in the absence of its founding president Lalu Prasad

'Powerless' in Bihar Assembly

During the monsoon session of the Bihar Legislative Assembly that ended last week, the building plunged into darkness a few times, thanks to power failure, providing members an opportunity to aim barbs at each other. During one such spell of darkness, when a debate was going on, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nand Kishore Yadav shouted from the Opposition benches: "Bijendra babu, pranam (Mr Bijendra, accept my salutation)!" Nand Kishore Yadav was referring to state Energy Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav. Usually a good speaker, that time round, Bijendra Prasad Yadav was at a loss for words. A Rashtriya Janata Party leader later said the power minister must have been feeling quite "powerless".

Bihar assembly adjourned over attack on Dalit students

BJP legislators demands a judicial probe into the incident in which nearly a dozen people were injured

Watch your tongue

A Bihar Assembly member of the Janata Dal (United) from Gopalpur in Bihar warned his political rivals not to insult the party workers. Addressing a public gathering on Sunday, Gopal Mandal said he would chop off people's tongues if they criticised his party workers. Barely six months ago, Idris Ali, a Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member from West Bengal, had courted controversy when he threatened to "tear out the tongue" and "chop off the limbs" of a Left party leader. Last year, when political circles in Tamil Nadu were abuzz with conjecture that Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was unwell, a minister from her party said he would cut off the tongue of anyone, who talked about her health.

NDA attacks Nitish govt over law & order issue in Bihar

Bihar CM left the Assembly after five minutes, when members created uproar & didn't allow functioning of the House.