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The Muslims of India (and Bihar) with their countrymen will heave a sigh of relief if normalcy returns in relationship with Pakistan. The Hindustani Muslims are often unjustifiably looked upon as siding with the hostile neighbor country just for the reason of religion.
If I noticed correctly, on 2 March 2021, the day Nitish Kumar was vaccinated against Covid-19, an armed robbery took place at a jewellery shop in the Kankarbagh area of Patna.
On 3 March 2021, Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan would have turned 90: forty-five days shy, he passed away for his heavenly abode leaving the world of Hindustani classical music drowned in deep sadness.
The pace of development in Bihar can be gauged from the fact that it took nearly three months for the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to finally fill up his cabinet. This also meant that Nitish with a new team or the NDA as a winning political front weren't buoyed up with an agenda or action items to embark on immediately following the November 2020 election.
It’s nice to see PatnaDaily back after a brief recess. Running a media outlet during the pandemic must have been a challenge, given the fact that many essential human activities world wide had to be either curtailed or discontinued.
Close on the heels of Mewalal Choudhary, the chickens seem to have come home to roost for Tejashwi Yadav too. A demand has been raised that he shouldn't be allowed to be the leader of the opposition because of his alleged involvement in several corruption and criminal cases.
November the 3rd, 2020, was the unique day when many Biharis like me followed the second phase of the Bihar Vidhan Sabha election with one eye on the U.S. presidential election.
Back in the 70’s and 80’s, fragmentation of the opposition votes benefitted the ruling Congress party. By the same logic, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its coalition NDA, in the 2020’s, must take advantage of the splitting up of the votes against them.
The unresolved political cleavage between the national presidents of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Janata Dal (United) didn’t seem to augur well for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar.
With the announcement of the state election in three phases, Bihar is poised to have a new Vidhan Sabha (the Lower House of the provincial Legislature). According to the Election Commission of India -- the single federal authority in-charge of nation-wide elections (unlike the USA) -- the first day of the poll, 28 Oct 2020, will cover 16 districts (71 constituencies). The second round of the election will be conducted on 3 Nov 2020 covering 17 districts (94 constituencies) and the final poll on 7 Nov 2020 will wrap up the remaining 78 constituencies in 15 districts.
