Three early trends could set the pattern of the Bihar results: BJP's strong cadre worked, Nitish Kumar proved pundits wrong, and Congress remained weak link

As early trends in results of the Bihar assembly election 2025 started to stream in, three broad themes appear to be dominant.

One, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that appeared to be heading towards a repeat or even improvement of its 2020 assembly election tally of 74, has managed to consolidate a cadre in a state where mass, freewheeling politics has been the norm so far.

“There is no doubt that BJP has put in place a cadre, something that it had lacked all these years,” said political analyst Prabhat Singh.

The second and perhaps the most important direction is yet another return of Nitish Kumar, who is already the longest ser

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