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Indian Politics · 11 Nov 2026 · 7 min read

Bihar’s Women Voted in Record Numbers; Delhi’s Commentariat Still Looked for a Conspiracy

Bihar’s remarkable female turnout should have forced a rethink of the patronising way political elites describe welfare voters. Instead, much of the opposition ecosystem treated participation as suspicious whenever it did not produce its preferred narrative.

By Meenakshi Iyer