The campaign for the Bihar Assembly Elections is underway. Both the NDA and the RJD-led opposition have released their manifestos. Beyond the intricate comparison, narrowed down to every single promise, the manifestos are starkly different. The NDA manifesto focuses on enablement through welfare, infrastructure, skilling, education, and ease of credit. Meanwhile, the anti-incumbents have made it about a single agenda-government employment.

Over the last ten years, the Modi Government has introduced unprecedented welfare programs at scale in the state. Citizens, especially women, have been encompassed by several welfare schemes. From toilets to tap water, from houses to gas cylinders, from bank accounts to access to credit, and from self-help groups to Lakhpati Didis, the focus of the gove

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