Post–poll, post-counting violence in Panchayat elections in Bihar: a very worrying trend indeed! Patna: according to latest reports, the husband of a newly elected woman village head was shot dead by unidentified gunmen Thursday in Bihar’s Begusarai district. Anil Singh, husband of Ranju Devi, elected the mukhiya from Govindpur in the recent panchayat polls, was shot to death in Suro village of Begusarai. Angered by the incident, villagers protested and blocked National Highway-28 and demanded the immediate arrest of people behind the killing. The Bihar panchayat polls that began on April... 

Young Bihar: a 22-year-old engineering student elected as Mukhiya in Bihar!   Patna: according to latest reports, a 22-year-old engineering student has been elected as the head of a panchayat in Bihar, almost certainly the youngest person to be chosen for the post as the counting goes on for Bihar panchayat polls.   Ajay Kumar, a student of engineering at an institute in Jamshedpur, was elected mukhiya (village council head) of Haradaspur Diyara panchayat in Patna district. Ajay defeated his grandfather Vasudev Rai and outgoing mukhiya Jagdip Rai.   According to Ajay, ‘People...