New Delhi: Tejashwi Yadav may be the obvious choice to be the I.N.D.I.A. bloc’s chief ministerial face for Bihar, but there are questions about the strategy to turn the Assembly elections into a personality contest with the sole focus on the RJD scion as against the projection of unity among allies.

With no major realignment of caste or communities against the backdrop of the elections, it is to be seen whether a personalised projection of a leader, whose party and family face allegations of ‘jungle raj’, brings dividends, or should there be a strategy recalibration to espouse collective leadership.

The road to the announcement of Tejashwi as the chief ministerial candidate was not a smooth one despite its predictability, as the Congress dragged its feet till the last minute, and VIP chi

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