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Elections. in India's 1st Elections website Home » Blog » BJP to Leverage OROP to Win Support Ahead of Bihar Assembly Polls BJP to Leverage OROP to Win Support Ahead of Bihar Assembly Polls By Deepak Parvatiyar September 9, 2015 5.00/5 (100.00%) 2 votes The biggest gain that the BJP seems to have derived out of One Rank One Pension (OROP) is to successfully send across the message that it has delivered on its promise. The party has been quick to pat itself for OROP, saying that the Narendra Modi government had the “courage” to implement the longstanding scheme. This is significant in the wake of the impending assembly elections in Bihar. Any further delay in the announcement of the OROP scheme would have meant that the government had to withhold it once the dates for Bihar elections were announced by the Election Commission. This would have given an opportunity to the likes of Janata Dal (United) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his ally...

Elections. in India's 1st Elections website Home » Blog » Who are the Key Players in Bihar Assembly Elections? Who are the Key Players in Bihar Assembly Elections? By Deepak Parvatiyar September 10, 2015 Rate this post Elections in Bihar are a complex exercise considering the significance of caste considerations with all major castes throwing in their respective lot with their own leaders, often irrespective of political affiliations. At times, even these caste votes are divided amongst the leaders of the same caste. It has been observed in the past when prominent Yadav leaders – Sharad and Lalu – were pitted against each other in the same constituency by rival political parties. Same has been the case with other castes, too, although in the past two and half decades the state politics has been dominated by the Yadavs, mainly the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav. This time, Lalu’s indictment in the fodder case meant he is ineligible ...