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Sunday, January 4, 2026
TopicBihar polls 2025

Topic: Bihar polls 2025

Polls, populism & the pinch: Tightrope walk for NDA as debts weigh down Bihar economy

In 2025-26, Bihar is estimated to spend Rs 1,08,094 cr on committed expenditure, which is 42% of its estimated revenue receipts. This offers little scope for spending on development.

Maharashtra’s alliance circus looks to Bihar template for a script rewrite ahead of local body polls

With alliances forming and dissolving within hours, Maharashtra's local body polls are looking at a maze of confusion. Now both Mahayuti and MVA hope the NDA victory in Bihar can indicate the way ahead.

In Bihar victory speech, PM Modi warns of another Congress split, tells its allies to ‘be very wary’

Victory has energised the BJP’s cadre in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Assam, and West Bengal, Modi declares. The states will go to polls in 2026.

10-point guide to Bihar election results: Lalu, Nitish & BJP’s hawk eye

Alliance partners have not lost any vote share. The central message of this election, therefore, is that the rival can’t take away your committed voters. You have to stitch alliances to bring in the “others”.

Down to single digit: What caused Congress’s undoing in Bihar 

Bihar was central to the party’s ‘vote chori’ allegations amid opposition over EC's electoral roll revision exercise.

Supermajority, served with a slice of cakewalk & fishing in pro-incumbency waters

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Khesari Lal Yadav’s flop show in Chapra, BJP’s Chhoti Kumari delivers a hit this Friday

RJD candidate is up against Chhoti Kumari of the BJP. The seat has been with the BJP for the past 10 years.

Chirag adds sheen to NDA’s win in Bihar, delivers another blockbuster with 19 seats

The golden run continues since the 2024 general elections when his party had won all five parliamentary seats, a 100 percent strike rate.

Seemanchal stays with Owaisi as NDA sweeps past an INDIA bloc nursing familiar wounds

AIMIM has held its ground in Seemanchal, winning 5 seats, once again denting the INDIA bloc vote, even as the NDA sweeps the Muslim-dominated region.  

Bihar to finally have the first BJP CM. It’s just a matter of time

If Nitish Kumar doesn’t budge, as is likely, they may give him a grace period of a year or two, at most. He won’t be able to resist for long.

On Camera

Wall Street carries big expectations this year after best run since 2009

The concern is not that 2025’s rally was irrational, but that it may be difficult to repeat. Outlooks remain anchored to AI investment and growth without reigniting inflation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.