Do Parties Really Understand Bihar’s Young?

As Bihar votes today on 141 constituencies, all eyes are on smaller parties like Chirag Paswan’s LJP(RV), Manjhi’s HAMS, Kushwaha’s RLM, and Sahani’s VSIP, that may hold the key to the final result.

Bigger parties need to combine with these smaller-but-crucial players – voices of specific marginalised segments, especially women and subaltern youth.
If conventional right-leaning political talk against infiltrators and illegal immigrants combined with targeted cash transfers for women and unemployed, a strategy used extensively in Europe and Latin America, Mahagathbandhan’s

voter adhikar yatra

used a rights-based vocabulary, mirroring the Brazilian leanback on the right-to-information campaigns against Bolsonaro.