“What Does Bihar Look Like In 2025? Reflections And Anticipations..”, Swarajya, November 06, 2025
“As Bihar enters the final stage of a gruelling campaign for its legislative assembly polls this week, the general consensus is that the outcome is too close to call. Nonetheless, it is worth trying to assess qualitatively which way the wind might be blowing.
On one side stands Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of the Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), who has enjoyed a near-uninterrupted run in that post for two decades. That is the only constant in a state where Nitish Kumar has switched allies so many times that it is difficult to keep count.
For the past few years, his principal ally has been the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), supported by Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), with whom Nitish Kumar’s ties are strained to say the least. Despite that, this National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition has performed fairly well in government and in the Lok Sabha elections of June 2024……..”
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