India, Nov. 4 -- Bihar's 2025 election manifestos from the NDA and Mahagathbandhan largely ignore the state's defining crisis - floods.

Despite pledges of prosperity and infrastructure, both alliances remain silent on erosion, sedimentation, and resilience planning.

The NDA promises a "flood-free Bihar in five years", but offers little beyond infrastructure-driven optimism.

The Mahagathbandhan names floods and droughts as key challenges, yet its vision remains rhetorical and vague on execution.

Both manifestos reveal a deeper failure of political imagination - treating recurring floods as welfare issues, not systemic challenges.

Floods have become Bihar's most defining and unrelenting challenge, a cycle that year after year uproots m...