Behind Liberia.

"Billed as a close contest in the backdrop of the wafer-thin margin of the 2020 assembly elections, the 2025 Bihar polls have seen the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) surge ahead and win 202 seats in the 243-seat assembly," Of the two largest parties in the NDA, the BJP won 89 seats compared to 74 in 2020, while the JDU won 85 seats, almost double of the 43 it won in 2020. The Wire. Various factors play a role in India's election. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has been conducting a special intensive revision (SIR) of the electorate. "It involves booth-level officers (BLOs) visiting households, distributing forms and collecting updated voter details." TNIE. SIR is supposed to remove names of people who have died but states ruled by opposition parties, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal, have approached the Supreme Court alleging that genuine citizens are also being removed from the voters' list. Mint. Their suspicions have been aroused because BJP leaders bring up the issue of "ghuspaithiya (infiltrators)", meaning Bangladeshis, before elections. "This time in Seemanchal, a region with a substantial presence of Muslim voters." India Today. Eight months pregnant Sunali Khatun is in a Bangladeshi prison. "Branded an 'illegal immigrant' first by Indian police and then by Bangladeshi authorities, she has been pushed across borders and stripped of any belongings, despite holding an Aadhaar card and a voter identity  card." ET. At the end of September, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi...launched Bihar's Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana (chief minister women's employment scheme), and transferred Rs 10,000 each to bank accounts or 7.5 million women." The Rs 75 billion scheme "is aimed at promoting women's empowerment through self-employment and livelihood opportunities." NDTV. Brazen buying of votes just over a month before the election in Bihar from 6-11 November (wikipedia). After the sweeping victory, "Thanking the people of Bihar for handing a thumping victory to the NDA, PM Modi has said good governance and development have won the state." NDTV. On his sixth visit to Bihar, Ruchir Sharma wrote, "Traveling nearly 1,000 miles across Bihar, we were battered by the depth of poverty in this lush but swampy landscape." "If Bihar were a country it would be the world's 12th poorest, behind Liberia." "In the town of Maner after we saw touts paying children to wade neck-deep into a garbage-filled pond, groping around for mudfish as their mothers looked on, one of my veteran companions broke down and went home." TOI. With no job opportunity, "Today, two in every three households in Bihar have at least one member working outside the state." "In 1981, only about 10-15% of families had a migrant worker. By 2017, that figure had soared to 65%, turning migration from a coping mechanism into a defining feature of life in Bihar." TOI. In 2024, "In the last two years, PM Modi has spoken has spoken confidently about his ambitious goal to make India a developed economy by 2047." CNBC. Have to beat Liberia first. Like Bihar.