JD-U leader sues Lalu Prasad for defamation

In a bid to fight his way back out of political wilderness, Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad on Wednesday addressed his first major rally in Bihar in a decade during which he called Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a "dictator" whose "downfall" has begun and a "parrot" of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Sixty-five-year-old Prasad, who is seeking popular support to regain power, spewed venom on his bete noire on a wide range of issues and said the beginning of ...

New Delhi, May 18 (IBNS): Bihar chief minister and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) chief Nitish Kumar was seen snapping at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kirti Azad for interrupting him on Saturday, in what was seen as the latest evidence of a strain ...

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi has stirred up a hornet's nest by asking senior coalition partner Janata Dal United (JD-U) to refrain from dictating terms. "In a democracy, there is no place for any right to veto or dictate terms," said Modi, in ...

Patna, April 18: The Janata Dal (United) on Thursday stepped up the heat on its ally, the BJP, after the saffron partys chief, Rajnath Singh, met the core committee from Bihar in New Delhi to discuss the rift in the NDA. All JD(U) cadres are hurt at ...

The Janata Dal-United (JD-U) may ally itself with the Congress if it splits from the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Party leaders believe that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may not go the Naveen Patnaik way of contesting alone. Nitish is ...

The argument advanced by Bihar chief minister and Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar that the Godhra tragedy was a Modi government failure is unconvincing. Did he not have any responsibility as the then railway minister when the entire compartment of the ...

on Tuesday attacked his superior Nitish Kumar saying the way Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was targeted at the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) national executive was unfortunate and it should not have happened.The BJP leader said that the party¢s ...

New Delhi, April 14 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday downplayed allegations that Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar had targetted senior party leader Narendra Modi in his speech on the second day of a national executive meeting ...

The differences between Nitish Kumars Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party do not augur well for the NDA. Mr Kumar is not too happy about the Gujarat chief minister emerging as the BJPs blue-eyed boy for 2014, and the increasing possibility that ...