“Prime Minister Modi has reframed Bihar’s traditional Muslim-Yadav (MY) politics as a “positive MY” focusing on women and youth to assert a shift toward development-oriented politics over caste-communal binaries.”

The National Democratic Alliance’s sweeping victory in the Bihar Assembly elections marks not just another electoral triumph but a pivotal moment in the state’s contemporary political narrative. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the mandate as an endorsement of a new “MY – Mahila and Youth” formula, the results have indeed signaled a shift in the electorate’s priorities, aspirations and political engagement. For decades, Bihar’s politics has been framed around identity-driven formulas, most notably the traditional “MY” – Muslim-Yadav – axis associated with the Rashtriya Jan

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