Discrimination against women in BMP

CPI-ML (Liberation) memebers demonstrate outside Bihar Assembly to protest the discrimination agianst women in Bihar Military Police (BMP) in Patna on July 30, 2009.
Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

Water crisis in Machchua Toli

Residents of Arya Kumar Road and Machchua Toli stage demonstration demanding immediate replacement of a defunct transformer of water board in Patna on July 30, 2009. The entire area has been reeling under acute water crisis for the past 48 hours.
Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

Shakuni Choudhary files nomination for Deputy Speaker of Bihar Assembly

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Shakuni Choudhary (second from right) files nomination papers for the post of Deputy Speaker of Bihar Assembly in Patna on July 29, 2009. RJD state president Abdul Bari Siddiqui (right) is also seen in the picture.
Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

George Fernandes back in JD (U) fold

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar receives veteran socialist leader George Fernandes in a city hotel in Patna on July 29, 2009. Fernandes is likely to file his nominationpapers as the ruling JD(U) nominee for the by-election to the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Bihar.

Fernandes contested as an independent candidate from Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha seat and lost after he was denied JD(U) ticket.
Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui