THE BIHAR MANDATE IS CLEAR The Bihar Assembly election results have been interpreted in several ways. What is certain that the JDU and BJP candidates won mostly because a great many people didn’t want the Laloo-Rabri combo back in any eventuality. Most people wanted to give Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a second term, to see if he can follow through on his promises. There were hundreds of people who voted for the BJP candidates, not as a support to their party ideology, but to ensure that Bihar under Nitish Kumar continues on its faltering path to development. Actually, Nitish is the only... 

Rabri devi looses from both seats…other prominent loosers Ex Chief Minister and RJD supremo’s wife Rabri devi was one of the prominent looser of this election. She lost from both constituencies by big margins, at Raghopur constituency she lost to JD (U) candidate Satish Kumar with huge margin of  more than 13000 votes. While from Sonepur she lost to BJP candidate Vinay Kymar singh with even bigger margin of around 20,000. It should be noted that both these constituencies belonged to Saran district, a Yadav dominated district. Suggesting caste was not a factor at all in these...