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In an exclusive interview to indianexpress.com, Ramz, who is fighting from Chakulia, speaks about the future of the Left, Mamata Banerjee’s “appeasement” politics and emergence of the BJP.

In an interview to indianexpress.com, Iman said: "In our campaign, we urged voters not to support those who had deceived them in 2015, and to back those who talked about their issues and would provide them their own leadership."

The AIMIM had fielded 16 candidates in Seemanchal, presenting itself as an alternative to the RJD and Congress — the traditional winners from the region.

Tejashwi promised a number, BJP countered with its own — it rallied crowds and became this Bihar election’s refrain. At public meetings of four leaders who have emerged as the face of the polls, The Sunday Express finds four people with distinct voting choices and a common hope — rozgaar

A Shia community traces lineage to horse traders who came from present-day Iran centuries ago.

In a veiled reference to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the Mahagathbandhan’s CM candidate said, the Centre “has harassed you by bringing in different laws... I stood with you at that time. Let’s not get divided now.”

Without naming CAA-NRC, Tejashwi said the central government “harassed you by bringing different laws. I stood with you during that time. Now I am saying let’s not get divided."

In a fight that increasingly seems tighter, Kushwaha-fronted GDSF of six disparate parties, from AIMIM to BSP and smaller UP fronts, could prove crucial

Bihar polls: The AIMIM chief's forceful and frequent interventions in Parliament over the CAA seem to have struck a chord with voters in this part of the state.

The AIMIM, which is hoping Kishanganj will be its springboard into Bihar politics, says AMU-K is one of their main poll issues. Qamrul Hoda, who won the Kishanganj Assembly bypoll last year, says, “The Centre and state have deliberately kept the region illiterate, using Seemanchal as a vote bank.”

Every year, the waters wreak destruction in Seemanchal; this year, the govt was accused of being ill-prepared. But, “elections are fought on other issues”

Akhtar-ul Iman came to Owaisi in a last-minute switch before 2014 LS polls. Since then, he has emerged as his right hand man

Subhashini could be fielded from Bihariganj in Madhepura district, her father’s pocketborough. Sources said the Congress could also give a ticket to former BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv.

Over the years, frequent flooding of the Mahananda river and its tributaries has rendered agriculture unviable in the region.

Mirchantola is one the 25 villages in Amour Vidhan Sabha constituency in north Bihar that has been braving floods and massive land erosion over the past few years. This year, in Mirchantola alone, 100 families have been uprooted.

As per details released by Rajasthan’s Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Rohit Kumar Singh, 457 evacuees from Iran who were quarantined at the Army facility in Jaisalmer have been sent home to Srinagar and Ladakh in three batches over the last three days.

As the government extended the lockdown by 19 more days, migrant workers from Seemanchal -- consisting of Kishanganj, Purnea and Kathihar in Bihar and Uttar Dinajpur in West Bengal -- are staring at a bleak future.

The students of Marwari College which is affiliated to Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University, Madhepura, were protesting against the cancellation and delay of BA Part-I examination just a day before it was to begin.

A week on, water has receded in the flood-hit Seemanchal region of Bihar and parts of West Bengal, but what is left behind is only wreckage, telling the stories of death and destruction. Apart from human lives, livestock have been lost and crops destroyed.

Chakulia block in Uttar Dinajapur is also under the grip of flood. Water from the Mahananda river breached the NH 31 on Sunday marooning major part of the area. The power grid in Dalkola is under water, disrupting power supply in the entire region.

Pankaj Dixit, District Magistrate of Kishanganj, said, “People are being moved to safer areas. We have set up relief camps. Teams from NDRF and SDRF are carrying out rescue and relief work.”

May be there was a sense of denial that the BJP would even consider Yogi Adityanath as the contender for the chief minister’s post. But then, victory is what matters in electoral politics.

We look to answer four questions these elections had thrown up.

In the SP stalwart's word, he expelled both the leaders to save the party.