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Podcast: Bharatvaarta
Episode: #057 - Bihar Elections 2020 - Deep Dive | Aashish Chandorkar, Vivek Khaitan & Rohit Jayaraman
Description: Voting in the Bihar State elections begins on October 28th and India’s 3rd most populous state goes to polls. Sentiment for the current National Democratic Alliance (NDA), a coalition of Janata Dal United (JD - U) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Nitish Kumar is mixed. While popular consensus is that governance over the last five years has been ordinary, Bihar is among the least affected States in the current COVID crisis. The State has numerous parties, key among them the BJP, JD (U), RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal), LJP (Lok Janshakti Party), and the Indian National Congress (IN...