The Rediff Election: Bihar

October 28, 1999
• Tight security for polls in Bihar

October 25, 1999
• Cracks in Bihar's RJD grow wider

October 14, 1999
• Bihar gets 11 representatives in Vajpayee ministry

October 9, 1999
• BJP, JD-U fly high in Bihar
• Laloo pledges to carry the fight forward

October 8, 1999
• BJP alliance wins 40 in Bihar; Laloo loses
• Samosas will never taste the same again
• BJP threatens to change state's political profile

October 7, 1999
• Patna HC stays Madhepura result
• Vajpayee's men take the lead in Bihar

October 6, 1999
• Sharad Yadav begins indefinite dharna
• Bihar poll ends in peace

October 5, 1999
• EC orders repoll in 166 booths in Bihar
• Sharad Yadav threatens indefinite fast

October 4, 1999
• RJD leader killed in Bihar violence

October 3, 1999
• JD-U asks EC to defer poll in Bihar

October 2, 1999
• BJP urges EC to keep state ministers off Madhepura
• Floods threaten poll in north Bihar

October 1, 1999
• Voters want the return of the native in Banka
• Bihar takes special steps to prevent poll violence
September 30, 1999
• RJD candidate arrested for assaulting policeman
• Mentor battles protégé to garner minority votes
• Polling postponed in 4 Bihar constituencies
• The clash of the Yadavs
September 28, 1999
• JD-U says Bihar administration was mute spectator to violence
• Flooding may hit polling in Bihar

September 26, 1999
• Polling peaceful in Bihar
• 51 per cent vote; 6 killed in Bihar
• DM orders arrest of cooperative minister

September 25, 1999
• Tight security for second-phase polls in Bihar
• Laloo vs the united opposition in Bihar

September 24, 1999
• Security geared up in sensitive seats prior to polls
• Undercurrent of discontent threatens Fernandes
• Adivasis see through Jharkhand promise

September 23, 1999
• Pot-holed roads to Parliament

September 22, 1999
• MCC activists kill CPI-ML leader in Palamau
• Fernandes sticks to his allegations of excess ballot papers

September 21, 1999
• Rains obstruct anti-Naxal ops in Bihar
• Bihar minister resigns, joins JD (U)
• Bihar governor apprises President of law-and-order situation
• Bihar governor will apprise President of poll violence
• RJD makes Paswan slog to retain Hajipur
September 19, 1999
• Nitish Kumar's tightrope walk
• Two polling personnel killed in blast in Bihar
• Naxals kill 24, including 21 cops, in Bihar

September 18, 1999
• Politicians's relatives find nominations easier to come by in Bihar
• One district, three phases of polling
• Tie-up with RJD will not prevent Jharkhand formation, says Scindia
• Where power flows from the barrel of a gun

September 17, 1999
• Vicious electoral battle on in Hajipur
• Santhal Paraganas: tinged with a saffron hue

September 16, 1999
• The Lotus blooms in Hazaribagh

September 15, 1999
• Bihar Congressmen working at cross-purposes
• Ranvir Sena man joins the fray in Ara, may muddy the pool

September 12, 1999
• Of Bhumihars, bullets and the battle of the ballot

September 10, 1999
• Rustic rivals give Yashwant Sinha a run for his money

September 08, 1999
• The saffron Muslim

September 07, 1999
• Bihar's tribal belt sees some interesting contests

September 02, 1999
• Samata blames EC for 'selective' approach
• Tiwari pledges Congress support for Jharkhand

August 31, 1999
• Chaos in Bihar JD-U as chief quits

August 28, 1999
• BJP rules in south Bihar, the RJD in the north

August 26, 1999
• Jharkhand Front releases manifesto
• Congress, JMM-S wait for full moon
• Bihar to deploy boats during poll

August 25, 1999
• Why the RJD-JD pact collapsed

August 24, 1999
• CPI rejects Laloo's offer, to go it alone in Bihar
• Congress-RJD tie-up faces uncertain future
• Jharkhand Peoples Party merges with JMM
• Reserve 'special treatment' for Bihar, BJP tells EC

August 22, 1999
• Laloo announces deal with Congress
• JMM manifesto harps on separate statehood

August 21, 1999
• Bihar Congress looks a gift horse in the mouth
• Air time allotted to Samata, Lok Shakti challenged

August 20, 1999
• Laloo, Sonia fail to make any headway on Bihar alliance
• Christians may tilt the scales in south Bihar

August 19, 1999
• Congress, RJD fail to break seat-sharing deadlock
• JMM to contest 56 LS seats

August 18, 1999
• Soren calls for unity among Jharkhand parties

August 17, 1999
• 'Section 144 clamped on 3 Bihar districts