As voting begins in the state to elect a new government, caste alliances are driving elections under the catch-all phrase of ‘development’. In a ground report, Hardnews travelled through the state to understand which way the wind is blowing

Bihar politicians have dropped their effective policy approach to pander for votes among Backward classes. Will their bid to shake the BJP pay off?

Lalu recalled some of the statistics in it and rattled off things from it like the credit/deposit ratio’s, the investment in irrigation and rural development, and the destructive freight equalization policy

‘The Nitish government has been busy appeasing RSS,’ says CPI-ML (Liberation) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya

Nitish looked sideways when the coffin-gate scam was raised, even while the ‘saffronisation of education’ was in full swing

Even if Nitish Kumar masquerades his opposition to Narendra Modi, he would not really cause any anxiety to the RSS as long as he supports the BJP in a post-poll scenario

Not only Nitish and Modi, but Congress leaders too have long manipulated figures to project their governance and achievements favorably

Despite being pulled up by the Election Commission for distributing money among his votebank, Lalu Prasad Yadav’s election campaign in Bihar is going strong and his future seems assured