Bihar is now BJP’s responsibility. Double-engine governance must bring progress

T he spectacular victory of the NDA in Bihar was probably a foregone conclusion even as the campaign began about a month back. NDA’s total of 200 plus seats, almost double what it got in 2020, proves the invincibility of the BJP’s apex leadership. It appears to have mastered the art of winning elections. Besides micromanagement of every constituency up to polling booth level through “panna pramukhs”, the party’s election machinery had begun work almost one year before the election process began. A lot more contributed to this landslide win.

For over five years, one of the longest-serving chief ministers of Bihar, JD (U)’s Nitish Kumar, earned the epithet “sushasan babu” (good governance man). His focus on development in the background of RJD’s mismanagement, corruption and total absence