Jayanta Bhattacharya

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi opened a can of worms last month alleging inclusion of non-existent voters in the list by more than one lakh in the Mahadevapura Assembly constituency. Rahul Gandhi described it as a ‘vote chori’ and went on a campaign in Bihar along with Tejashwi Yadav.

Both West Bengal chief minister and Jan Suraaj party founder Prashant Kishore in Bihar have chosen sub-nationalism as their poll campaign focus – Banerjee, linguistic sub-nationalism and Kishore, economic nationalism.

Beginning this month, Indian Railways will introduce a set of ticketing reforms. Perhaps the most significant change comes in the form of...