Bihar Elections 2025: The Race for Single Largest Party & Coalition Strategies

As Bihar heads to polls, the political battlefield is more divided than ever.
No single party seems close to a majority - but every major player wants to emerge as the single largest party.
From Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and Tejashwi Yadav’s RJD to the BJP’s comeback strategy, alliances are everything.

In this newsroom discussion, our editors decode the complex equations shaping Bihar’s election: caste dynamics, alliance compulsions, and the high-stakes political manoeuvres that could decide who forms the next government.