With 57% of the population under the age of 25, Bihar has the highest proportion of young people in the country. How will this affect the fortunes of next-gen leaders such as Tejashwi Yadav and Prashant Kishor?
The forthcoming Bihar assembly election promises to be interesting in many ways. First, it is shaping up to be an election dominated by youth — or, at least, by leaders who are being projected as ‘youthful’ by their parties. Leaders like Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan, deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary, election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor, former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s son Santosh Kumar Suman, and the UK-return Pushpam Priya Choudhary are actively holding public rallies and campaigning across Bihar’s villages, towns, and bastis.