The BJP's defeat in Bihar dents its hopes of improving its RS tally but the grand alliance victory could also present the first signs of tension when five JD-U members retire next year.
The party is counting on women voters and caste calculus, among others, to swing the crucial polls in its favour
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The Bharatiya Janata Party claims it has over six lakh committed workers in Bihar, a team of 10 deployed for each of the 62,200 polling booths.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's vision document for Bihar promises to shower freebies on all sections of society if comes to power.
Grand alliance leaders accuse their rivals of having engineered electoral tactics to confuse its voters.
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The leadership styles of the two Gandhis being different, the party appears to be pulling in different ways. While Sonia Gandhi, the longest-serving Congress president, seems more predisposed to holding the government accountable on issues of probity, the younger Gandhi is more keen on taking up battles that ensure immediate victories.
The credibility of India in the eyes of foreign investors has also relatively gone up, with China's blunders in this crisis.
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A victory will consolidate the position of not just the PM but also of his lieutenant BJP President Amit Shah, says Archis Mohan.
Laggards yet, a number of smaller PSBs in the category have balance sheets which do not give much comfort.
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