New Delhi: The run up to the Bihar polls hasn’t been a “dance of democracy” and been more “like a brawl than a ballet”, The Economist notes, looking at how “India’s poorest and youngest electorate” is gearing up for the upcoming assembly polls.

While Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, 74, is “not the striking young leader he once was”, the report says that the single biggest complaint is “the lack of decent jobs”.

“Workers from Bihar can be found on factory floors across India. But they rarely get the chance to do that kind of labour in their own state, which hosts a mere 1% of the country’s factories. Around half of Bihar’s workforce toils on farms, and even in agriculture productivity lags the rest of India. Many young Biharis have given up looking for work altogether. Only about one-th

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