As Bihar Assembly elections 2025 are approaching, the political atmosphere has again started revolving around two prominent faces Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav. Senior journalist Sanjeev Pandey made a big prediction and said in a show that both the leaders are holding fast to their respective support bases. He said that Nitish is still in the field with the help of experience and organization, while Tejashwi has filled new energy in the youth. According to Sanjeev Pandey, instead of rejecting Nitish Kumar’s policies, Tejashwi Yadav has adopted the strategy of strengthening them.

He says that Tejashwi has promised to provide permanent allowance to women and make contract workers permanent while continuing schemes like women empowerment and livelihood. With this strategy, Tejashwi has increased confidence in both the youth and women sections.

Women voters are the biggest strength of Nitish Kumar

From 2005 to 2020, women voters were considered to be Nitish Kumar’s biggest strength. Schemes like prohibition and Panchayat reservation established him as the messiah of women, but now the equation seems to be changing. Sanjeev Pandey believes that the effect of prohibition has weakened and Tejashwi’s cash assistance schemes have given a new option to women. This can make a dent in Nitish’s traditional vote bank.

Nitish factor still alive in NDA

In the recent past, there was strong speculation that Nitish Kumar may now be marginalized in the NDA, but Pandey’s analysis says that Nitish is neither tired nor retired. His core vote bank is still with him and his political experience makes him unpredictable. He added that despite differences between BJP and JDU, Nitish’s role remains decisive.

Jungle Raj vs Employment Raj, the focus of the new generation changed

Sanjeev Pandey said that today’s youth does not see the incidents of Lalu Yadav’s era, but sees the reality of unemployment and migration. While the older generation remembers Jungle Raj, the new generation is making jobs an issue. He also said that voters in the age group of 18 to 30 years are now giving priority to economic opportunities over caste identity.

Employment and migration are the real center of election discussion

Unemployment crisis continues to be an election issue in Bihar. Sanjeev Pandey said that in Bihar, contract workers get Rs 6,000–8,000, whereas in South India the same work is done for Rs 18,000. In such a situation, the youth is hoping for change. He told that Tejashwi Yadav is trying to capitalize on this sentiment by giving the slogan of Employment Raj instead of Jungle Raj.

RJD’s new social engineering

This time, Tejashwi Yadav has included candidates from Bhumihar, Extremely Backward and Dalit classes in ticket distribution. According to Sanjeev Pandey, this step gives the message that RJD is no longer just a Yadav-Muslim party. This change broadens the image of RJD and tries to show the grand alliance as socially balanced.

Tejashwi is ahead in survey report but the contest is still open

According to new surveys, the public’s first choice for the post of Chief Minister is Tejashwi Yadav. Sanjeev Pandey said that about 31–32% people like Tejashwi, while Nitish Kumar has about 12–13% support. However, he cautioned that popularity and results are two different things. In Bihar, caste, women’s vote and the image of the local candidate sometimes change the whole picture.

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Bihar Assembly Election 2025: Preparations for the assembly elections in Bihar have intensified. Every party is engaged in giving a edge to its election campaign. This time the focus of BJP is on women, temple and Modi i.e. MMM factor. Keeping this factor in mind, in the last few days, the Bihar government has also made many big announcements about women. At the same time, BJP is also preparing for some of its plans keeping this factor in mind.

From Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rallies rallies to the announcement of the grand temple of Mata-Sita and after this, many big announcements have been made including pension, marriage pavilion, calling people living outside the festivals. Through them, BJP and JDU have tried to create a special Narrative. The focus of the NDA through its announcements is to repair its core voters and make people stand in their court through breathtaking promises.

PM Modi’s upcoming Bihar tour
PM Modi will hold rallies in all 9 divisions of Bihar between July 15 and September 15. Even before this marathon tour of PM Modi for two months, he has held public meetings in Madhubani, Bikramganj and Siwan in Bihar. In the next two and a half months, there are more than 10 times to visit Bihar. On the other hand, the grand temple of Mata Sita has also been announced in Sitamarhi, whose design CM Nitish Kumar has been released. Home Minister Amit Shah has also mentioned the temple of Sita Mata many times in his public meetings.

BJP’s temple and focus on women
The BJP is focusing on both temple and women voters through this. Women have stood firmly with BJP and JDU, especially in the last few elections. Keeping this in mind, CM Nitish Kumar has also announced some schemes. The first long -standing demand was met. The Bihar government announced to increase the amount of widow, old pension from 400 to 1100 rupees.

Bihar government’s livelihood project
After this, two important decisions related to the Jeevika project were taken by the Bihar government to make women empowered and self -reliant. Under the Jeevika Project, now the decision to pay only 7 percent interest on bank loans worth more than Rs 3 lakh to self -help groups, earlier this amount was at 10 percent interest. The state government has decided to double the honorarium of all the personnel associated with livelihood. The state government itself will bear the additional amount of honorarium of these employees.

Marriage programs of daughters of poor families
Apart from this, the Bihar government announced the construction of marriage building in all the panchayats for convenience in the marriage program of daughters of poor families in rural areas. The Chief Minister Kanya Vivah Mandap Yojana was approved and it was said that these marriage buildings will be operated by Jeevika Didis. That is, there were women at the center of this decision of the government.

Possibility of more announcements on women
The BJP is working on many more schemes about women in the coming days. Which can be announced by the BJP at the time of election. In the elections of many last states, it has also been seen that the BJP had also made many announcements about women in its manifesto, which the party got the benefit in elections and the party got a good vote of women.

India Alliance focus on women
Here India Alliance has also intensified efforts to help women voters. Congress and RJD have announced schemes like reservation in 50% government jobs for women, free scooty and girl safety fund. They are running this campaign by the name of ‘Beti Ka Bhavishya’ campaign. At the same time, the temple has retaliated on politics and called it an attempt to divert attention from emotional issues. India Alliance claims that the real issue is employment and inflation.