The landslide win for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in Bihar uncovered a swing voter: women.
They outnumbered men in turnout by a massive 10 percentage points. Presumably, this swung the scales for the NDA.
The cohort of women is also signaling new priorities. What will they be? Will women redefine India’s polity and policy priorities?
To answer all this and more, StratNewsGlobal.Tech spoke to Rahul Verma, political analyst and Fellow, Centre for Policy Research on Capital Calculus.
Anil Padmanabhan has been a journalist for the last 36 years. He has worked in various capacities in several publications including Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Press Trust of India, Business Standard, Mint and was based in New York for India Today. He was a Nieman Fellow in 2001. He tweets at @capitalcalculus.
