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Manoj Tiwari, the Bhojpuri singer and Member of Parliament was brought in with an eye on the purvanchali vote in Delhi that has emerged as the single biggest chunk of voters

Many resets are being reported in Bihar politics. Uday Narayan Chaudhary, former Speaker in the Bihar Assembly and a senior leader in the Janata Dal United (JDU) has quit his party and is planning to join the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). His grouse is that the alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has turned the JDU into an anti-Dalit party, compromising on the party’s social agenda. JDU says his coming or going will have little effect as he is not considered a mass leader. Meanwhile, with almost certain denial of ticket in the 2019 General Election, BJP MP from