What's in a name? An entire vote bank

It seems that the only politics that works in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh is the politics of identity. New Chief Ministers of these States try hard to show that they want to escape from it. They start off by employing the alternate politics of development, but ultimately fall back on tried and tested identity politics to remain in power. In Bihar, Lalu Prasad Yadav was seen as having taken power through the politics of identity.

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