India, Oct. 23 -- Bihar has managed to buck two political trends of the past decade. The first is of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) having a chief minister (CM) in every state of the Hindi-speaking belt - Bihar stands out as the lone exception. The BJP may be the primary pole of national politics at present, but Bihar remains the one Hindi heartland state it has never won on its own. The second is that while most states in the region have delivered verdicts in which one party is always very close to the majority mark, government formation in Bihar has required the support of multiple parties. In fact, the last time any party netted a three-digit total in the 243-member assembly was in 2010, when the Janata Dal (United) or JD(U) won 115 ...