Bihar polls could upend decades of status quo despite caste arithmetic

While Nitish Kumar’s health and prospects of him continuing as Chief Minister for a full term if the NDA wins could bother the ruling alliance, the spectre of “jungle raj” under the previous RJD rule remains a generational trauma; challenging the status quo is the ‘X’ factor Prashant Kishor whose Jan Suraaj Party could cut votes of either of the alliances

​While Nitish Kumar’s health and prospects of him continuing as Chief Minister for a full term if the NDA wins could bother the ruling alliance, the spectre of “jungle raj” under the previous RJD rule remains a generational trauma; challenging the status quo is the ‘X’ factor Prashant Kishor whose Jan Suraaj Party could cut votes of either of the alliances