By Subodh Kumar Mehta

With the results of the Bihar assembly elections out, I would, first and foremost, like to congratulate the peo­ple of the state. But I also appeal to them to look within. They have elected a party that has not given a single development project to Bihar.

The victory of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is based on the popular sentiment of “jungle raj”. I concede that we couldn’t systematically dismantle the false narrative.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to Bihar with a politics aimed at holding on to office and not of development. We hope that people realise this in the coming days.

I do feel that the majority of the deletions in Bihar were from the voters who would have voted for the grand alliance (Mahagathbandhan). This was part of the NDA’s strateg

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