Nitish's party JD(U)’s surge propelled the Modi-Nitish-led NDA to an astounding victory with a mammoth four-fifths majority

xNitish Kumar is all set to take oath for a historic 10th time as chief minister of Bihar. His party JD(U)’s surge propelled the Modi-Nitish-led NDA to an astounding victory with a mammoth four-fifths majority. With the BJP trouncing RJD to become the largest party, the victory, by a stupendous 202-35 margin against the INDIA alliance is to be seen as an overwhelming pro-incumbency vote in the politically complex state of Bihar with its caste equations and its lower economic and development status.

Only a multiplicity of factors could have driven such a result, with the foremost among them being a record turnout of women in the polls which drew the highest number of

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