Bankipur By-Election: How BJP Lost Hold of 31 Years-old Political Fortress?

After 31 years, the BJP has lost the Bankipur Assembly seat in Bihar, one of its strongest political bastions, to Prashant Kishor, who was contesting his first-ever election. The defeat comes at a remarkable political moment: Bihar has its first BJP Chief Minister, the sitting MLA from Bankipur had become the BJP’s National President, and the NDA had recently recorded its biggest-ever electoral…