Indian History

Guru Nanak Dev Ji Today is  Guru Nanak Jayanti, also referred to as Gurupurab, which  celebrates the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of  Sikhism.      Every year, Guru Nanak Jayanti coincides with Kartik Purnima, as per Hindu calendar. 2025 marks the 556th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. Guru Nanak [1469-1539] was the founder of Sikhism, a monotheistic religion born in 15th-century. Influenced by the pure monotheistic doctrine of the Upanishads (mystical Hindu texts) Guru Nanak preached the fundamental truth underlying all religion. Guru Nanak was born in a Khatri family in 1469 at the village of Talwandi ((now called Nankana Sahib), thirty-five miles south-west of Lahore and situated in the Nankana Sahib district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The followers of Sikhisism must carry five articles all the time. They are known as the Five Ks: the Kesh (uncut hair), Kara (a steel bracelet), Kanga (a wooden comb), Kaccha (cotton unde...

Contesting Candidates for  Mokama  Assembly constituency Assembly Elections 2025     Party Candidate Votes Polled   JD(U) Anant Singh     RJD Veena Devi     Jan Suraaj Party Priyadarshi Piyush     AAP Dr. Rajesh Kumar       The Bhumihar dominated assembly constituency of   Mokama   in Bihar is currently held by Neelam Devi of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). She had won the seat in 2022 in a bye-election which was necessitated due to the disqualification of her predecessor Anant Kumar Singh as an MLA. In that election while Neelam Devi had polled 79,744 votes, 63,003 votes were received by her nearest rival Sonam Devi of BJP. Since 1980, Mokama assembly constituency has been won by strongm...

Contesting Candidates for  Benipur  Assembly constituency Assembly Elections 2025     Party   Candidate Votes Polled             Jan Suraaj Party             Located in the Darbhanga district of Bihar, Benipur is currently held by Binay Kumar Choudhary  of the JD(U). He had won the seat it in the last assembly polls to Bihar in 2020 by defeating his nearest rival Mithilesh Kumar Chaudhary of Congress by a margin of 6,590 votes. In that election, Binay Kumar Choudhary had polled 61,416 votes, the Congress candidate received 54,826 votes and was followed by LJP (Lok Janshakti Party)’s Kamal Ram Vinod Jha who received 17,616 votes. In 2015 the Benipur seat went in favour of JD(U) whose nominee Sunil Chaudhary had defeated the sitting BJP MLA Gopal Jee Thakur by 26,443 votes. In 2015 the Janata Dal (United) was in alliance with the Rashtriya Janta Dal at that time. Gopal Jee Thakur had wo...

Contesting Candidates for  Belsand  Assembly constituency Assembly Elections 2025     Party   Candidate Votes Polled   BJP       Congress      Jan Suraaj Party Arpana Singh             Belsand Located in the Sitamarhi district in Bihar, Belsand is currently held by Sanjay Kumar Gupta of the Rashtriya Janata Dal. He had won the seat in 2020 by defeating his nearest rival and then sitting Janata Dal (United) MLA Sunita Singh by a margin of 13,931 votes. Sunita Singh had emerged victorious from the  Belsand   seat in 2015 and 2010 on the ticket of JD(U).  Earlier Sunita had won the Belsand assembly seat in February polls in 2005 on a Lok Janshakti Party ticket by defeating the sitting RJD MLA Ram Swarth Rai who was elected from the seat in the previous assembly elections in 2000 by trouncing her (Sunita’s) husband Rana Randhir Singh Chauhan, who was in the fray as a Samata...

Contesting Candidates for  Begusarai Assembly constituency Assembly Elections 2025     Party   Candidate Votes Polled   BJP Kundan Kumar       Congress  Amita  Bhushan      Jan Suraaj Party Surendra Kumar Sahani             Begusarai, one of the seven assembly constituencies in the district of the same name in Bihar, is currently held by the BJP legislator  Kundan Kumar  who  won the seat by defeating his nearest rival  and then incumbent MLA MLA  Amita Bhushan of Congress  by a margin of  4,554   votes in the last assembly elections to Bihar in 2020. In that election, while  Kundan Kumar   had polled  74,217  votes, the Congress candidate had secured  69,663  votes and was followed by independent candidate  Rajesh Kumar  who received  18,002  votes. Amita  Bhushan had earlier won for...

Voting: Thursday, 06 November , 2025 Party   Candidate Votes Polled    BJP Raghwendra Pratap Singh      RJD  Rambabu Singh                     Located in the district of Bhojpur in the state of Bihar, Barhara is currently represented by BJP’s Raghwendra Pratap Singh who received 76,182 votes to defeat the sitting RJD MLA Saroj Yadav by a margin of 4973 votes in the last assembly polls in 2020.   In the election to Barhara assembly constituency in 2015, while Saroj Yadav had defeated Asha Devi who entered the fray as a BJP candidate.   In 2010 Raghwendra Pratap Singh had won the seat on the ticket of RJD by defeating Asha Devi who was a JD(U) nominee. In 2010, the BJP did not field its candi...