JD (U) supremo’s acceptability to the women voters factored in NDA’s big win

By Rabindra Nath Sinha

Several conclusions, interesting and of political import, are instantly possible from an analysis of the Bihar Assembly election results announced on Friday, November 14. The most telling of these inferences is that the Bharatiya Janata Party, despite being for the first time the single largest party with 89 seats in a 243 member-House, is not in a position to do a Maharashtra where Eknath Shinde of the Shiv Sena had to step aside for Devendra Fadnavis, who had earlier headed a BJP-led ministry. The reason is simple. The imprint of chief minister Nitish Kumar on the Bihar result is so emphatic that despite his party Janata Dal United’s tally being four less at 85, BJP has to accept that th

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