BIHAR MOVES FROM LEGACY BATTLE T0 GEN-NEXT POWERPLAY

The Battle of Bihar is moving from its old formulation of a Nitish vs Lalu legacy battle, toa powerplay amongst the Gen-Next.

- BY PRIYA SAHGAL

Given Bihar Chief Minister and JDU leader Nitish Kumar's ailing health, a succession war has broken out amongst the Gen-Next. From the I.N.D.I.A bloc there is of course Tejashwi Yadav, who remains the tallest leader, though the Congress is keen to start building its leadership, which is why itis insisting on the post of Deputy CM (should the alliance come to power). Within the NDA camp, the powerplay got alittle interesting recently, when Chirag Paswan played hard to get during the seat sharing and eventually managed to walk away with a large chunk of seats. In fact, to accommodate Chirag’s chunk of 29, the JDU ha