There are elections that change governments. And then there are elections that change the grammar of politics itself. The 2025 Bihar verdict belongs squarely to the second category.

Beneath the saffron sweep, beneath the shattered caste equations, beneath the ruins of the Mahagathbandhan’s thrashing defeat, two constituencies — women and youth — silently rewrote Bihar’s political gravity. In the story of Bihar’s new political core, they became the decisive anchors of a mandate that stunned pundits.

Women’s mandate

Women have emerged as the most decisive and emotionally anchored political constituency in Bihar.

In this election, they did not just vote — they surged. Women’s turnout soared to 71.6 per cent, nearly ten points higher than men. For the first time, they outvoted men not out

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