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Bihar Polls Boil Down to Local Caste Factors: Sankarshan Thakur

Will development override caste alliances in Bihar? Watch senior journalist Sankarshan Thakur’s take. 

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Sankarshan Thakur, Roving Editor of <i>The Telegraph.</i>
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Sankarshan Thakur, Roving Editor of The Telegraph.
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While there has been a lot of rhetoric around development, the Bihar elections will boil down to caste alliances and voting patterns at the local level, according to Sankarshan Thakur, Roving Editor of The Telegraph and author of political biographies of both Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar.

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Published: 19 Aug 2015,06:15 PM IST

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