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As Bihar prepares to vote in the first phase of Assembly elections on October 28 and voters hope the next five years are better than the last five, many of the principal actors look upon this election merely as a stepping stone to the next one.
For Tejashwi Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Chirag Paswan of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), this election is a route to power — not necessarily to the throne. For incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of the Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the election is a way of consolidating
